Microsoft helps WikiEducators

[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi Everyone,

Microsoft, working alongside the Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation at Otago Polytechnic and the New Zealand Ministry of Education, has produced a new, open source extension for Microsoft Word that allows documents to be saved in a Wiki-friendly format called MediaWiki, as used by the popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Read more: http://wikieducator.org/Microsoft_Launches_Open_Source_Filter_for_Mediawiki

Cheers
Wayne

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[Maurice Alford]

Looks great Wayne!

Collaboration is definitely worthwhile.

regards

:-) Maurice

[Paul Seiler]

I agree and have been playing with the plug-in for 2 months and like it. A good, collaborative effort.

Paul.

Ps could somebody post to mle, as I am on a phone :-)

Sent from my HTC

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From: Maurice Alford <a...@lyttonhigh.net>
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Subject: Re: [OERNZ] Microsoft helps WikiEducators

Looks great Wayne!

Collaboration is definitely worthwhile.

regards
:-) Maurice

On 17/11/2010, at 11:25 AM, Wayne Mackintosh wrote:

Hi Everyone,

Microsoft, working alongside the Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation<http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Home> at Otago Polytechnic<http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic> and the New Zealand Ministry of Education, has produced a new, open source extension for Microsoft Word that allows documents to be saved in a Wiki-friendly format called MediaWiki, as used by the popular online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.

Read more: http://wikieducator.org/Microsoft_Launches_Open_Source_Filter_for_Mediawiki

Cheers
Wayne

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[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi Randy,

Well there is always the WikiEducator online conversion service for those users who may not have MS Word 2007 and above.

See: http://wikieducator.org/Special:OOoConverter

This work was also supported with thanks to the New Zealand Ministry of Education.

Cheers
Wayne

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Randy Fisher <wiki...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

This is great news - and a sure sign of progress.

I've checked the download, and sure enough, it's there.

It is a bit disappointing though, that it's only for MS Word 2007 and above.

I know many people (myself included) and organizations which never made the upgrade from Office / Word 2003.

Sigh -

Nevertheless, a big thank you to all of the partners who made this happen.

- Randy

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[Wayne Mackintosh]

Hi Kim,

And the online WikiEducator conversion service (which will convert .doc into wiki text) uses the Open Office engine in server mode.

This is useful in cases where institutions lock down machines restricting user freedoms to install free software.

Cheers
Wayne

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Kim Tucker <kctu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Randy and all,

> I know many people (myself included) and organizations which never made the
> upgrade from Office / Word 2003.

OpenOffice.org (free/libre software) has this capability: File/
Export/ MediaWiki (.txt).

I have used it extensively in the past, most recently while
developing/ converting these case studies:

http://wikieducator.org/Free_Software_Case_Studies/Case_Studies#On_WikiEducator

(pro-freedom vs pro-choice ;-)

Kim

Get OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/

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On 17 November 2010 01:05, Randy Fisher <wiki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is great news - and a sure sign of progress.
>
> I've checked the download, and sure enough, it's there.
>
> It is a bit disappointing though, that it's only for MS Word 2007 and above.
>
> I know many people (myself included) and organizations which never made the
> upgrade from Office / Word 2003.
>
> Sigh -
>
> Nevertheless, a big thank you to all of the partners who made this happen.
>
> - Randy
>

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