[Mediawiki-l] Fwd: wiki versus Word

Hi everyone - I sympathize with the struggle to introduce users to a new tool - they resist because learning new things slows them down...they lose productivity and it's frustrating. I've been looking for a tool that allows users to have an editor with a friendly UI that is compatible with MediaWiki, so I'm trying out this combination: OpenOffice Writer, (http://www.openoffice.org/) because it behaves like MS Word, and Sun Wiki Publisher ( http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/wikipublisher)<http://… , because it promises a painless upload/download with MediaWiki. I'm attempting to put it together now - I'll keep you posted Also, this article is a great introduction to wiki use: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-social-mediawiki/in… Best, Evelyn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Evelyn Yoder Technical Communications http://longjump.com/ MediaWiki-based online help: http://longjumpsupport.com/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: McHale, Nina &lt;Nina.McHale(a)ucdenver.edu&gt; Date: Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:06 AM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] wiki versus Word To: &quot;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&quot; &lt;mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Hey, all, Some of my colleagues are objecting to my desire to minimize uploading of Word documents to our new intranet wiki. My main objection to it is that we ought to be entering information into wiki pages so that we can take full advantage of document versioning, talk pages, watching, etc.-y'know, the stuff that makes it a wiki... I've been called "silly" and "arbitrary" regarding this. :) I'm not outright forbidding posting Word documents; I'm just trying to get people to use the wiki the way it's mean to be used. Am I being unreasonable? I even stated that it's acceptable to load the final version of a 20-page report, or a form that's meant to be printed out and filled out by hand-i.e., things in a final state that do not need further editing. Has anyone else encountered this resistance? I was most surprised that it came from someone who uses/edits Wikipedia, which, as far as I can tell, does not support uploading of Word docs. Nina Nina McHale, MA/MSLS Assistant Professor, Web Librarian Auraria Library http://library.auraria.edu/~nmchale/ Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=672599042> | MySpace< http://www.myspace.com/ninermac> Serving the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver, and the Community College of Denver 1100 Lawrence Street Denver, CO 80204 303-556-4729 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l