Yes, that's a good point. I am stuck with MediaWiki however. I've tried bibtex2html followed by html2wiki successfully. The hmtl output can then be used for Word also. To go the other way, I thought to make a wiki page with the bibtex entries (wrapped with <pre></pre>) for other people to enter their entries. Once in a while, I will take that page and run the bibtex2html+html2wiki combo. It's awkward. Consolidating a wiki into a pdf is a good idea for a report though.
-- myriam