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Re: Media Wiki?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bray, Adam)
Tue Oct 18 10:09:41 2011
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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:06:16 +0000
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From: "Bray, Adam" <adam.bray@yale.edu>
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Hi Mary,
There are a few tools in MediaWiki that may help with this. It all really depends on what format your current documentation is in.
I would start by taking a look here if you haven't already:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_external_content
I would also take a look at the maintenance scripts, specifically the importImages.php and importTextFile.php scripts.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maintenance_scripts
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:ImportImages.php
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:ImportTextFile.php
This would at least help you get the pages into the system, but they'd probably need a bit of work to polish them up (adding links, embedding images onto the page, etc). You may be able to automate things like image embedding depending on how your documents are structured (are they PDF, HTML, etc?), but I can't really say without knowing more.
There are other options out there that may help (e.g. http://mwcsvimport.pronique.com/) but I can't say for sure how useful they'd be in your case.
Hope this helps!
Adam Bray
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Student Technology Collaborative
www.yale.edu/its/stc
On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:40 AM, Mary Ryan wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> We currently have all of our internal support documentation (that our Help
> Desk uses for support issues/questions) on a shared network drive, which
> obviously isn't ideal, especially in situations where our staff needs to
> search for information relatively quickly.
>
> Our university has Media Wiki installed already and we're thinking about
> moving to this format. I've been playing around with it some, but the main
> question/issue I'm having is we have almost 300 support documents that would
> need to go into any new system we use, many of them have
> pictures/screencaps. I'm not seeing an easy way to do any kind of import
> process of documents, especially where pictures are concerned.
>
> Has any other university taken on an initiative like this with many
> documents that need to be added to Media Wiki, and if so, how did you go
> about it? Just want to make sure I'm not missing something obvious.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mary Ryan
> Assistant Director, Help Desk & ResTech
> Webster University
> 314-246-8753
> ryanm@webster.edu
>
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