[SoCoSA/discuss] db (etc) --> Wiki or...?

[Christopher Wagner]

We also use a Wiki at my work (MediaWiki) to handle IT's documentation,
with the intention of quite possibly deploying it company-wide.  It has
been invaluable to our department, we are still in the process of
transferring data from documentation in other formats (ie: Word, Excel,
etc..).

There are a number of web-based conversion utilities one can use to
convert Word and Excel to Wiki format that I've found by Googling.  FMP
may be a bit more problematic.  I don't think you're going to get the FMP
Calendar to convert to Wiki nicely (and update cleanly, especially) enough
to please the users.  I recommend perhaps going with another calendar
project for that.  The documentation in FMP may come out in CSV (or some
other text format) that you can manipulate into something usable by the
Wiki.

Looking in the Wiki, I see that the converter I've been using for Excel
stuff is:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Duesentrieb/csv2wp_%28en%29

Anyway, hope that helps.

- Chris W.

On Thu, June 29, 2006 12:38 am, Steve S. wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Eric Eisenhart <freiheit at socosa.org> wrote:
>
>> We've been using a Wiki for handling documentation in my department at
>> work.
>
> <SNIP>
> Thanks; this kind of feedback is invaluable!
>
>
>> We're a sysadmin
>> department and the Wiki-style markup is reasonably easy.
>
> <nod>
>
> This would be corporate-wide.  Personally, I'm willing to wikify
> (hell, I formatted my
> English & PoliSci papers using nroff...), but techies and non-techies
> alike would  at
> times be asked to update it vis-a-vis their own proceedures (e.g.
> there's one person
> (from accounting, as it happens) who has been tasked with the chore of
> backups &
> tape-rotation; when she's out sick, it can be confusing for others to
> do that function --
> where to get the different tapes for the different machines, what is the
> "backup
> strategy," etc.) .
>
> Given the user-base, I expect that anything non-wysiwyg is a non-starter.
> :-)
>
>
> - Steve S.
>
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