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• 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)