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Publisher Extension Makes Wikis Editable in OpenOffice
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 6:40 AM on May 23, 2008
Windows/Mac/Linux (OpenOffice): The Sun Wiki Publisher, a free extension for the OpenOffice.org office suite, lets you edit and contribute to any MediaWiki-based page on the web, assuming it accepts anonymous editing or you have credentials. The real benefit lies in being able to use OpenOffice's styling tools—bolding, lists, tables, and the like—instead of having to remember the MediaWiki markup style. Creating a new page is relatively simple, but editing an existing page requires, at least with this version, copying and pasting an article in Writer, then sending it to the wiki for updating. For those rocking their own wiki web pages (or thumb drives), this extension might make a nice go-between. The Sun Wiki Publisher is a free download, works wherever OpenOffice.org does.
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gestorter
Posted 6:25 AM 23/5/08
im guessing if you cant get it working on a USB, then you cant use it with the mambo/joomla plug-ins either.
gestorter
dre12n
Posted 3:20 AM 23/5/08
This doesn't seem to work with MediaWiki installed on a USB drive; at least I can't get it to create a new page, or modify an existing one.
dre12n
BurtonRattlesnake
Posted 1:23 AM 23/5/08
How does one *import* a MediaWiki page into Writer?
BurtonRattlesnake
John Ratcliffe-Lee
Posted 12:59 AM 23/5/08
Anyone know if there is something like this for SocialText?
John Ratcliffe-Lee
joelena
Posted 12:12 AM 23/5/08
@Brimstone: TiddlyWiki uses JavaScript as its secret sauce, while MediaWiki (and probably lots of other "true" wiki engines) uses php. So, it shouldn't work for a TiddlyWiki. There are WYSIWYG plugins available for tiddlywiki: [www.tiddlywiki.org]
joelena
Brimstone
Posted 11:21 PM 22/5/08
Would this work on TiddlyWiki's?
I'm not sure of the differences between MediaWiki and all the others.
Brimstone