Thread Subject: FW: FW: tables in wiki?

From: Gregg Vanderheiden
Date: Mon, Oct 30 2006 1:40 PM

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Gregg
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Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Caldwell [mailto: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ]
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 11:51 AM
> To: Gregg Vanderheiden
> Subject: Re: FW: [teitac-tools] tables in wiki?
>
> Thanks Gregg,
>
> I hadn't seen the CSV one before. There's a good list of related tools at:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Editing_tools#Wikisyntax_con
> version_utilities>
>
>
> -Ben
>
> Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:
> >
> >
> > Gregg
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> > Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = [mailto:teitac-tools-
> >> = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = ] On Behalf Of Jared Smith
> >> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 11:07 AM
> >> To: TEITAC Communications Task Force
> >> Subject: Re: [teitac-tools] tables in wiki?
> >>
> >> Here's a couple of tools that might make going to wikitext a bit
> easier:
> >>
> >> http://www.cnic.org/html2mediawiki.html
> >> This tool converts HTML tables to wikitext tables. You could even save
> >> a word processor document to HTML (In MS Word: File... Save as... Web
> >> Page, Filtered) and then paste the table code into this form for
> >> conversion. It's not perfect though and still may require a bit of
> >> cleanup. http://www.uni-bonn.de/~manfear/html2wiki-tables.php does the
> >> same thing.
> >>
> >> http://area23.brightbyte.de/csv2wp.php
> >> This online tool converts comma separated data to wikitext tables. You
> >> can export your spreadsheet data to a comma separated format (In
> >> Excel: File... Save as... CSV).
> >>
> >> Here's how I see things ...
> >>
> >> Wiki:
> >> - Technically is quite accessible, but wikitext may be difficult for
> some.
> >> - Full collaboration. Anyone can edit in near-synchronous manner.
> >> - Documents are all publicly accessible and are found within the
> >> existing set of tools.
> >>
> >> Google Docs/Spreadsheets:
> >> - Document author must provide an e-mail address for EACH editor, so
> >> this tool is not an open collaboration tool. Editors must have a
> >> Google Account.
> >> - Much easier to edit documents, but the interface is not screen
> >> reader or keyboard accessible.
> >> - Spreadsheets cannot be made publicly viewable (author must provide
> >> an e-mail addresses for each viewer). Documents can be made publicly
> >> viewable, but are in an external tool and a link to them must be
> >> provided.
> >>
> >> Based on this, if accessibility and open collaboration are both high
> >> priorities, I believe the wiki is better in both aspects. I don't
> >> think this means that Google Docs could not be used for
> >> non-collaborative content - it is very easy to create and publish
> >> content (Documents only, not Spreadsheets) and the published Documents
> >> content of is very accessible.
> >>
> >> Jared Smith
> >> NCDAE.org
> >>

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