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<!-- {{Feature
|explains= Special:Html2Wiki
|description=This extension to MediaWiki is used to import HTML content Convert web pages, Google Docs, or entire websites (including images) into the to your wiki.
|notes=Authored by [[User:Freephile|Greg Rundlett]]
|tests=Interesting test case: http://howtoreallypronouncegif.com/
|examples=
}}-->This extension officially lives at [[mw:Extension:Html2Wiki]]
We don't want to maintain another copy of See the documentation herethere, but we since it is maintained with the software. This site may well host development ideasor interesting examples/demos. == Other conversion tools ==Html2Wiki relies on <code>pandoc</code> to do format conversion. Here are some other approaches to doing conversions.=== LibreOffice ===LibreOffice Writer can connect to a Wiki, and allow you to edit and save articles in the wiki.* Make sure your LibreOffice can export MediaWiki directly from any format that LibreOffice can read sudo apt-get install libreoffice-wiki-publisherWith this library installed, you can now export documents straight out of LibreOffice. === Two-step conversion ===This isn't really better than using LibreOffice directly, but it is an option to at least compare the output (assuming direct export is giving a bad result)* Convert a doc to mediawiki by converting to HTML first, and then using <code>pandoc</code> to convert HTML to MediaWiki markup libreoffice --headless --convert-to html /tmp/awk.cheat.sheet.doc && \ pandoc awk.cheat.sheet.html -o awk.cheat.sheet.mw -f html -t mediawiki === Online conversion ===https://devotter.com/converter is a webform interface to pandoc Note: [[MediaWiki/Toolbox]] explains how we add a custom link to the "toolbox" element of this site. # {{@todo}} [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1094/ Html2Wiki workboard]# {{@todo}} upgrade extension to work with new loading mechanism# {{@todo}} Create a service to import Google Docs to wiki# {{@todo}} Expand Html2Wiki to include anything that pandoc supports