Convert from Microsoft Word to Media Wiki Markup Style

How do I export a word document to media wiki markup style I have been trying to do it by following the steps given in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:WordToWiki but all in vain, not getting it. Any help please.

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This page is made specifically for biowikifarm.net, but has some helpful general tips as well: biowikifarm.net/meta/Converting_Word_to_Mediawiki_text

Commented Aug 23, 2021 at 15:54

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Best way is to use Open Office

  1. Open the Word document in Open Office Writer.
  2. Go to File / Export.
  3. Under File format choose MediaWiki (.txt).
  4. Click Save (or Export).
  5. Open the new file in a text editor and copy the contents to the clipboard.
  6. Paste the text to a Wikipedia article.

That is copy and pasted from the document you linked to.

For Open Office 4.15 you have to add the extension Sun Wiki Publisher 1.1 with the extension manager.

If you don't want to install OpenOffice, another option is the Word2MediaWikiPlus extension.

1,944 16 16 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges answered May 14, 2010 at 13:36 Adrian Archer Adrian Archer 2,323 1 1 gold badge 17 17 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges

I added the following extension Sun Wiki Publisher 1.1 to Open Office 4.15 and it worked. It first hang up when I added it with the ExtensionManager , I killed OpenOffice Writer, removed it and added it again and then it worked.

Commented Jul 27, 2018 at 5:39

For info the Word2MediaWikiPlus extension page now shows "This extension has been archived. This extension has not been maintained for some time, and no longer supports recent releases of MediaWiki."

Commented Apr 29, 2021 at 15:00

In Microsoft Word 2016 I use the plugin "Microsoft Office Word Add-in For MediaWiki" (already suggested by Jake). https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=12298

To make it work in Microsoft Word 2016 (version 16.0). I followed these instructions but replaced "15.0" in the instruction to "16.0",

answered Mar 22, 2017 at 14:06 Snowrabbit Snowrabbit 152 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges

If you are running the 64 bit edition of Windows, do the same thing for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Word\Text Converters\OOXML Converters\Export\MediaWiki

Commented Sep 17, 2018 at 22:01

Microsoft has released an add-in for Microsoft Word that lets you export a doc file to MediaWiki formatting (as a .txt file). It's fairly decent.

answered Aug 8, 2012 at 17:14 4,859 2 2 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 46 46 bronze badges I have downloaded it. But I dont know how to use this. Help required to figure out. Commented Jan 24, 2013 at 11:24 btw, source code i at: wordmediawikiaddin.codeplex.com MS funded its development: wikieducator.org/… Commented Jul 22, 2014 at 2:25 Note it doesn't work on OS X according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… Commented May 11, 2016 at 14:12 LibreOffice works better, but both LibreOffice and MS fails to export/upload images. Commented May 22, 2017 at 0:21

I know I'm late to the game, but here are the usage instructions (from another answer's instructions link): Start Word and open or create a document. Select File-.Save As and when you get to the "Save As" dialog, you'll see "MediaWiki (*.txt)" in the list of supported formats in the "Save as type" list.

Commented Jul 28, 2020 at 15:13

If you're going to be doing this a lot, consider installing the FCK Editor. This has a Paste From Word button.

answered May 17, 2010 at 9:18 Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE Reinstate Monica - Goodbye SE 3,552 5 5 gold badges 42 42 silver badges 64 64 bronze badges

Please see also this wiki Q&A forum in start up phase: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/13716/wiki-edit

Commented Jul 18, 2010 at 17:36

The easiest way may be to install LibreOffice (http://libreoffice.org) and open the Word document in its Writer application, then from there do Export and save to Media Wiki txt file. The Copy-paste that text into the Media Wiki at edit mode

answered Jul 22, 2014 at 2:34 George Birbilis George Birbilis 2,879 2 2 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges

If you don't see the export feature, it means it wasn't bundled, but it's easy to fix: look for the libreoffice-wiki-publisher package/plugin and install it.

Commented Apr 29, 2015 at 9:00

but there was no way for adding images automatically that won't work for libreoffice or the word plugin.

If you have only a few docs for converting to the mediawiki, it is ok.

But if there ar more the it is great deal of time and effort.

For autom. Imageupload the only working solution was the discontinued project Word2MediaWikiPlus.

If somethings has changed in the last years let it me now.

But if not there are some solutions with work without image upload (if I found them i will add these entry here): - on webserer projekt which generated very good wiki markup output there , i can' t remember the name. - a commandline tool that do the conversion as input and output file