[OWW-Discuss] Fwd: OpenOffice 2.3's MediaWiki support

[Ilya Sytchev]

Also, OOo can now be used for converting Word documents to wiki text.

Bill F wrote:
> In a way, you can do this if OO can read MediaWiki. You can register it
> as an external editor for mediawiki text documents if it's turned on in
> config. The problem is there is some per-client config required to do
> this I believe.
> 
> B.
> 
> 
> On 9/21/07, *Ilya Sytchev* <ilyas at mit.edu <mailto:ilyas at mit.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Cool.  The next step would be to make OOo a front end for editing wikis
>     directly.
> 
> 
>     Sriram Kosuri wrote:
>     > FYI
>     >
>     > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     > From: *Benjamin Horst* < bhorst at mac.com <mailto:bhorst at mac.com>
>     <mailto:bhorst at mac.com <mailto:bhorst at mac.com>>>
>     > Date: Sep 21, 2007 4:18 AM
>     > Subject: OpenOffice 2.3's MediaWiki support
>     > To: Barry Canton < bcanton at mit.edu <mailto:bcanton at mit.edu>
>     <mailto:bcanton at mit.edu <mailto:bcanton at mit.edu>>>, Sri Kosuri
>     > <skosuri at mit.edu <mailto:skosuri at mit.edu> <mailto:skosuri at mit.edu
>     <mailto:skosuri at mit.edu>>>, Jason Kelly < jasonk at mit.edu
>     <mailto:jasonk at mit.edu>
>     > <mailto:jasonk at mit.edu <mailto:jasonk at mit.edu>>>
>     >
>     > Hi guys,
>     >
>     > I'm in Barcelona this week at the annual OpenOffice.org conference. I
>     > thought you might be interested in the latest release of OOo, 2.3,
>     > because it has the ability to save documents as text files in
>     > MediaWiki syntax, a feature which is seeing a lot of buzz among the
>     > attendees here. (Sun uses MediaWiki for a lot of internal sites, and
>     > the OOo community's MediaWiki has been the fastest-growing part of
>     > its site.)
>     >
>     > It might come in handy for you or, more likely, for other potential
>     > contributors to OWW who are just learning the wiki way!
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Ben
>     >
>     >
>     >
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