Wikipedia Tools - Importing (converting) Content To Wikipedia (MediaWiki) Format

Importing (converting) Content To Wikipedia (MediaWiki) Format

See also: Wikipedia:How to import articles, commons:Commons:Chart and graph resources, and Wikipedia:Tools/Editing tools#Wikisyntax conversion utilities

Google Docs Spreadsheet:

• Spreadsheet-to-MediaWiki-table-Converter This class constructs a MediaWiki-format table from an Excel/GoogleDoc copy&paste. It provides a variety of methods to modify the style. It defaults to a Wikipedia styling with first column header.

Microsoft Word:

See also: Help:WordToWiki

• mw:Extension:Word2MediaWikiPlus – a tool that converts Microsoft Word documents to MediaWiki. For Ms Word 2000 or 2003. "Support for Word 2007 and a bunch of other fixes, but it needs to be installed by hand".
• For other Macro, see mw:Word_macros – Visual Basic macros to use within Microsoft Word to prepare content to be pasted into a Wikipedia page.
• MSOffice add-on. For Microsoft Word 2007 or higher.
• wikEd – a full-featured in-browser text editor for Wikipedia edit pages that can convert text and tables pasted from Microsoft Word with a button click

Microsoft Excel:

• Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter (also: Wikipedia-friendly version without table template)
• de:Wikipedia:Helferlein/VBA-Macro for EXCEL tableconversion: Convert EXCEL-Table with most formatting like background- and fontcolor, fontstyle(bold/italic), columnheight, -width, etc. to Wiki-tableformat
• de:Benutzer:Duesentrieb/csv2wp_(en) or CSV Converter: Converts many types of spreadsheet tables, including CSV, tab-separated, etc., to MediaWiki or HTML
• A free open source tool, in .net to convert CSV and EXCEL files to wiki table format: csv2other.
• A proprietary, commercial, tool to create mass Mediawiki pages using CSV datasource and variable based templates. Results merged into a valid Mediawiki XML Import file. Mediawiki CSV Import tool.
• wiki2csv can convert wikitables to CSV and back. Useful to edit wikitables in Excel (or OpenOffice).

OpenOffice:

• Sun Wiki Publisher - an OpenOffice extension that allows exporting documents as MediaWiki source text via the File → Export → File Format drop down menu. Since OpenOffice.org can open all Microsoft Office files, one can open files created in Microsoft Word and export them to the MediaWiki format. Compatible with: OpenOffice.org 3.0 | StarOffice 9 or higher.
• Writer2MediaWiki: OpenOffice macro for converting to MediaWiki format. For OpenOffice version 3.1 or higher

HTML:

• HTML to wiki converter
• Table2wiki.py part of the Pywikipedia bot framework, web port

PDF:

• Appropedia:Help:Porting PDF files to MediaWiki – the most effective method found so far requires Adobe Acrobat (paid version).

LaTeX:

• User:Jmath666/latex2wiki – LaTeX to Wikicode translation tool

BibTeX:

• BibTeX converter – transforms BibTeX entries into {{Cite}} format

Citations:

• Import citations in any format at the Universal Reference Formatter.

CSV:

• CSVLoader is an AutoWikiBrowser plug-in that allows creating and updating articles using CSV data files.