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I’ve been doing some work in MediaWiki lately and found that I often need to move information from Word to MediaWiki.  Here is an awesome converter that I found which makes it a lot easier.  It’s not perfect but it sure is better than doing it manually!

Word2MediaWiki

Convert Microsoft Word document content to MediaWiki markup.

This is a Word Visual Basic macro. Usage requires a running copy of Microsoft Word that supports Visual Basic macros (Word 97 or greater).

Features

• Replaces smart quotes/double-quotes with dumb equivalents
• Escapes the following characters: * # { } [ ] ~ ^^ | ‘
• Converts external hyperlinks
• Converts H1-H5 headings
• Converts bold/italic/underline/strikethrough/superscript/subscript formatting
• Converts bulleted/numbered lists
• Converts simple tables.

Caveats

• No guarantees, no official support, just like the
• No in-document hyperlink conversion
• May not work well with documents that have highly customized styles/templates. It works best with documents written in the default “Normal” template
• Nested tables have not been tested and may not function as expected.
• Image/graphics/figures are not supported.

Installation

1. Download the Word2MediaWiki macro library
2. Start Word
3. Bring up the Visual Basic Editor (Tools->Macro->Visual Basic Editor or Alt+F11).
4. From the VBE, import the macro library (File->Import File…) and select the file you downloaded.

Usage

1. Open a word document to convert
2. Run the Word2MediaWiki macro by bringing up the Macros dialog (Tools->Macro->Macros… or Alt+F8), selecting Word2MediaWiki and clicking Run.
3. The macro converts the document to MediaWiki markup and places a copy of the content on the system clipboard.
4. Switch to a MediaWiki editor and paste the result.

Another option for you is to use OpenOffice 2.3 (and above). They have a MediaWiki conversion tool build right it!

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