Wordpress Export for Wikipedia
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[edit] Using Wordpress blog to upload to Wiki
[edit] The best part is: No changes required in Wikipedia's side
Nothing "touches" your Wiki installation since we are using Wikipedia's standard Special:Import page and it's XML / Wiki format ( go here for a sample XML file of one single page "A test of xml import" to import and the resulting page and it's automatic inclusion into Wiki revision history here)
[edit] Why Wordpress ?
- It's php and mysql.
- It's open source.
- It's secure and has been used for several years
- Wordpress has backup, import, export, spell check and many other useful tools
- Wordpress allows "extensions" just as WikiMedia (they are called plugins).
- Wordpress can import from Blogger.com and many other blogs (example: blogger import)
- Blogger.com has a new plugin to post Word files on Blogger.com so you can get Word into Wiki
- Since Blogger.com is not open source we can use Wordpress as a "bridge" between MS Word and Wikipedia.
File:MS-Word.gif --> File:Blogger.gif --> 
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- A bridge is a good idea to improve security: Admins can completely restrict access to Wordpress making sure only certain users can get content into Wikipedia
- Wordpress "talks" to bloggar, writely and hundreds of other xmlrpc clients
- Wordpress cleans HTML and translates it to UTF8
- Wordpress compatible clients such a Bloggar have a nice user gui and spell check. They would be a great client for wiki book writing. Writely does the same on the Web and Writely imports from Word!
- Wikipedia lacks a blog tool. A kind of "virtual water cooler" where members can comment and talk without being "mercilessly edited" and viewed by any search in the Wiki... (Optionally this feature can be turned entirely off)
[edit] Only 1 minor change and a plugin required in the Wordpress side
You will have to add a line to wp_config.php and install and activate the export plugin. That's it!
[edit] Where to get it
See more details at http://blogger-bee.com/index.php/Blog_to_Wiki_import and download the source at http://blogger-bee.com/Downloads/WPexportfor2.tar.gz
The gzip file comes with 2 XML samples (a sample of one single page import and a sample of my Wordpress Blog Export Output with multiple pages) you can save any of them to your hard drive and import to any Wiki right away create a free one here, (and delete it later is easy: they will all be user contributions by IP 127.0.0.0) Renmiri 09:51, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Note: Please note that the Wiki at http://blogger-bee.com/ is being used for all kinds of tests so you may find some odd pages there. A better place to see a clean copy of the results of my sample XML imports is http://www.editthis.info/virtualsoil/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=127.0.0.1
