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===Choosing a reasonable source document===
===Choosing a reasonable source document===
Before you begin the porting process, be sure that your wikitext skills are compatible with the document content that you wish to port.  If you have a collection of documents that are available for porting (as often happens), begin by porting some simpler documents.  Content features that require a bit of experience are listed below, along with a link to the WikiMedia help for the content:
Before you begin the porting process, be sure that your wikitext skills are compatible with the document content that you wish to port.  If you have a collection of documents that are available for porting (as often happens), begin by porting some simpler documents.  Content features that require a bit of experience are listed below, along with a link to the WikiMedia help for the content:
#Tables. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table
#Tables. See [[Wikimedia:Help:table]]
#Images. See [[Help:Images]] and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax
#Images. See [[Help:Images]] and [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Extended image syntax]]
#Web links. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Link
#Web links. See [[Wikimedia:Help:Link]]
#Footnotes. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes
#Footnotes. See [[Wikimedia:Help:Footnotes]]
Once you're comfortable with the wiki formatting side of things, the tricky bit is often in extracting the content from the PDF document.  The best approach is to be patient, break it down in to phases, and move through it step by step.  You can port a fairly simple 5 page PDF document in 15 minutes, but complexity will add time; 5 pages could be an hour or more if there are lots of tables, footnotes, images and links.
Once you're comfortable with the wiki formatting side of things, the tricky bit is often in extracting the content from the PDF document.  The best approach is to be patient, break it down in to phases, and move through it step by step.  You can port a fairly simple 5 page PDF document in 15 minutes, but complexity will add time; 5 pages could be an hour or more if there are lots of tables, footnotes, images and links.


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