How to publish a Word document to MediaWiki

Published 14 Sep 11 Mac and iPhone Leave a Comment

In Word, File>Save as Web Page…
In Firefox, Open the Web Page and View>Page Source. (In FFox 5, the menu is now Tools>Web Developer>Page Source)
Copy everything inside the <body> tags
Paste into a new plain text file (e.g. using TextEdit on a Mac)
Use the Find command to Replace All <o:p></o:p> with nothing
Use the Find command to Replace All <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]> with nothing
Go to http://toolserver.org/~diberri/cgi-bin/html2wiki/index.cgi and paste the edited text into the “Raw HTML” textbox
Set Wiki dialect to MediaWiki
click the Convert button

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