Survival of Advertisement Free Wikipedia

Wikimedia Foundation managed to raise $16 million in donations. Over 500,000 Wikipedia users donated in this fundraising. This money would help Foundation pay for their staff and other expenses. It will keep Wikipedia ad free for this year. When we look at Wikipedia one question arises in mind; What happens if people don’t donate. Will they then accept advertising? This question was asked to Wiki founder Jimmy Wales and he replied:

"While we’ve always said that we’re opposed to having advertising on Wikipedia, we’ve never said 'absolutely never'."

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Use Microsoft World To Write And Edit Wikipedia Articles

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Writing and editing Wikipedia or other Wiki based website pages is very complex. The formating syntax of Wikipedia is very complex for a ordinary person. Today when we are used to work with rich-text editors like Microsoft Word or Adobe Dreamweaver, no one will like to edit Wikipedia using its complicated syntax.

But the good thing is, now you can edit Wikipedia pages using MS Word. Now Microsoft Word can generate wiki format of text for you with a single click. This feature is not built-in but you can install a free add-in to generate a Wikipedia format of your text.

First install Microsoft Office Add-in for MediaWiki, and then create and format a document in MS Word as you do everyday, and hit Save As and select MediaWiki. MS Word will convert and save your document in Wiki style markup. You can also convert a html webpage . Just open the corresponding web page in MS Word and save it as Mediawiki text file.

* The add-in is only supported on 2007, 2010 and later versions of Microsoft Office Word.

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