Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-11-15/Technology report


 * A quick test of the Microsoft add-in doesn't do much for me. In the Word document I used italics, underlining, bold face, and colored text at various points in a sentence. When I went to "save as" for the MediaWiki converter, it saved it as a text file of wikimarkup. Okay, that's not too bad. The not-so-good part was when I viewed the newly created file's contents it showed that only the standard wikimarkup for bolding and italics was saved. No spans were used for color, no underlining . Meh. Killiondude (talk) 07:48, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * When converting a Word document for the purpose of it becoming an article, omission of spans and underlining would actually be a feature, not a bug, since those things are typically only used in articles - if ever - in templates. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 14:06, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Did you reverse the order of articles and templates? I can see your point. However, it's not a "Wikipedia article converter according to WP:MOS" -- it's a generalized wiki thing. I tested a bit more after posting here and it can center content, create bullets and numbered lists, so there's a bit more functionality than I expected. I suppose the omissions are forgivable seeing as they've only just released it and there's likely to be *some* missing things in it. Killiondude (talk) 17:43, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Press release by Microsoft, from today: http://wikieducator.org/Microsoft_Launches_Open_Source_Filter_for_Mediawiki Regards, HaeB (talk) 10:30, 17 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok, the new logo is good. 87.2.85.223 (talk) 20:17, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Aw. I'd be sad to lose the direct connection from File:WikiThanks.png to the logo. - BanyanTree 02:06, 23 November 2010 (UTC)