Using OpenOffice wiki publishing extension

[Jay911]

Hi,
I have a Sun Wiki Publisher extension for OpenOffice that insinuates it will make my editing of Wiki articles much easier (which is good because it's a royal pain to mess with wiki markup language). On the options/login screen in the extension, there is a place for the MediaWiki Server URL, and the username/password. No matter what URL I put in for the RR wiki, I get the error:

"A connection to the MediaWiki system at 'http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Main_Page' could not be created."

I've tried all iterations of the URL, starting with wiki.radioreference.com by itself and including index.php, index.php/Main_Page, etc., with no luck.

The OpenOffice help file says:

Enter the Internet address of a Wiki server in a format like http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki or copy the URL from a web browser.

Anyone got any suggestions on how to make this work?

 

[GTR8000]

That extension hasn't been updated in nearly 3 years. According to some of the comments on this page, the extension stopped working when MediaWiki 1.16.0 was released, which is the release level the RR Wiki is at. Looks like you're out of luck.

Sun Wiki Publisher | Repository for Apache OpenOffice Extensions

 

[mmtstc]

That being said, are there any good extensions besides this one for editing wiki?

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[ka3jjz]

Apart from the local definitions that allow you to copy data from the database - well, how much time do you have?

Category:Extensions - MediaWiki

The problem is - what one person thinks is a 'useful' extension would be another person's 'terrible'...

Happy reading...Mike

 

[Jay911]

I don't think that's quite what mmtstc was meaning. Probably more along the same lines as me, wanting a WYSIWYG editor so I don't have to screw around with raw markup language all day long.

Such tools when connected to the OpenOffice suite are called 'extensions' - different from the 'extensions' you've added to the wiki to let RRDB objects come through.

 

[mmtstc]

I don't think that's quite what mmtstc was meaning. Probably more along the same lines as me, wanting a WYSIWYG editor so I don't have to screw around with raw markup language all day long.

Such tools when connected to the OpenOffice suite are called 'extensions' - different from the 'extensions' you've added to the wiki to let RRDB objects come through.

That's the wheelhouse I was in...

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[ka3jjz]

The only 'extension' (so to speak) that I know of exists for Microsoft Word - it's a macro you can install that will take a Word document and translate it to MediaWiki

Of course, the translation isn't 100% - I've fooled around with it a little, and it appears that for basic editing, it would work. But if you get into more complex stuff - say templates and nesting - it won't work nearly as well. The URL is in the user guide.

I will admit to a bit of bias, however - probably because I code for a living, so learning MediaWiki wasn't all that hard. The macro works OK, but I prefer my style of coding - and just like any good writer, your style may be completely different from mine, but both work...

Mike