Help:WordToWiki

Microsoft Word

Microsoft released an add-in that allows you to save your Microsoft Office Word 2007 or above documents straight into MediaWiki.

1. Download the "Microsoft Office Word Add-in For MediaWiki" from Microsoft Download Center, and install it.
2. Save the document as "MediaWiki (*.txt)" file type.
3. Copy the text from the (*.txt) file into your Wiki page

This Microsoft add-in does not handle images and throws an error (fixed?)

Two-stage conversion from Word to MediaWiki

The following methods both perform: Word -> HTML -> MediaWiki.

Quick and Dirty

1. Open your document in Word, and "save as" an HTML file.
2. Open the HTML file in a text editor and copy the HTML source code to the clipboard.
3. Paste the HTML source into the large text box labeled "Raw HTML" on the html to wiki page.
4. Click the "Convert HTML to wiki markup" button.
5. Select the text in the "MediaWiki markup" text box and copy it to the clipboard.
6. Paste the text to a Wikipedia article.

Automated scripts

The conversion can also be done using a combination of two scripts and two software packages.

1. The following two software packages must be installed:
   • wvHtml Word to HTML converter - part of the "wvWare" word viewing library. (Note: wvHtml is deprecated and the site recommends using AbiWord --to=html instead. AbiWord can be obtained at abisource.com.)
   • HTML::WikiConverter - a perl module to convert HTML to wiki markup language.
2. Write the bash script "doc2mw", and the perl script "html2mw", both shown below.
3. Call doc2mw passing the word document as parameter. i.e.

> doc2mw my_word.doc

doc2mw: a bash script taking a single parameter, which calls wvHtml followed by html2mw.

 #!/bin/bash
 #       doc2mw - Word to MediaWiki converter
 
 FILE=$1
 TMP="$$-${FILE}"
 
 if [ -x "./html2mw" ]; then
         HTML2MW='./html2mw'
 else
         HTML2MW='html2mw'
 fi
 
 wvHtml --targetdir=/tmp "${FILE}" "${TMP}" 
 # but see also AbiWord: http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/howto/howtoexporthtml.html
 
 # Remove extra divs
 perl -pi -e "s/\<div[^\>]+.\>//gi;" "/tmp/${TMP}"
 
 ${HTML2MW} "/tmp/${TMP}"
 rm "/tmp/${TMP}"

html2mw: a perl script called by doc2mw, which uses HTML::WikiConverter to convert html -> mediawiki.

 #!/usr/bin/perl
 #       html2mw - HTML to MediaWiki converter
 
 use HTML::WikiConverter;
 
 my $b;
 while (<>) { $b .= $_; }
 
 my $w = new HTML::WikiConverter( dialect => 'MediaWiki' );
 
 my $p = $w->html2wiki($b);
 
 # Substitutions to get rid of nasty things we don't need
 $p =~ s/<br \/>//g;
 $p =~ s/\&nbsp\;//g;
 print $p;

Disclaimer: These scripts are probably not the best way to do this, only a possible way to do this. Please feel free to improve them.

OpenOffice or LibreOffice

OpenOffice versions 3.3 and later and derivatives like LibreOffice can send Word documents directly to a MediaWiki. (At least for the German version of OpenOffice 3.3.0 you need to install the ‘Sun Wiki Publisher’-extension first!)

Once you have added the MediaWiki-server of your choice, future submissions can happen automatically.

1. Open the Word document in OpenOffice or LibreOffice Writer.
2. Go to File / Send-To / To MediaWiki
3. Select your MediaWiki-server (or click on the button "Add..." to add a new site).
4. Select a title and summary for your article, check the box if it's a minor revision.
5. Click the send button.

Alternatively you can use the manual ‘export-function’ as well: File -> Export -> choose ‘MediaWiki (.txt)’-format.

See also

• Commons: Convert tables and charts to wiki code