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Microsoft Office Word Add-in For MediaWiki: Converts Word documents to wiki formatting. Doesn't do images. This may not work on newer versions of Word. Excel2Wiki tool for converting Excel tables to wiki tables. Transferring a single wiki page in MediaWiki to Word is easy, just save the desired webpage and then open the page in Microsoft Word.
MediaWiki Table Utility or this updated version This class constructs a MediaWiki-format table from an Excel/GoogleDoc copy&paste. It provides a variety of methods to modify the style. It defaults to a Wikipedia styling with first column header.
MediaWiki’s wikitable class (class="wikitable") is designed for straightforward table formatting and enforces certain global styles that make removing borders between adjacent cells challenging even if custom CSS styles attempt to eliminate these borders. Specifically, the class includes:
Currently, there does not seem to be a way to copy those tables to a wiki and keep styling such as colors (background or text color). It is possible to convert PDF tables to Excel and keep the colors. Or to HTML tables and keep the colors. But there does not seem to be a way to copy any of those colored tables (PDF, Excel, HTML, etc.) to a wiki.
The table above (even if some more columns are added) maintains one line per country for narrower browser and screen widths. So it is therefore more readable and scannable in long country tables. The table format below can greatly increase in number of lines, and require more vertical scrolling, especially if more columns are added.
Download the Excel file. Open it in freeware LibreOffice Calc or another spreadsheet program. If you just want one table from a long Excel page, you can select that table from the Calc page. Then copy the table to a new page in Calc. Edit and move columns and rows in Calc. To drag a column first select it by clicking its header number.
Microsoft released an add-in that allows you to save your Microsoft Office Word 2007 or above documents straight into MediaWiki. Download the "Microsoft Office Word Add-in For MediaWiki" from Microsoft Download Center, and install it. Save the document as "MediaWiki (*.txt)" file type. Copy the text from the (*.txt) file into your Wiki page
You can even import a table by dragging a comma-separated value (.csv) file from your computer into the main editing window. When you click on "Table", in the "Insert" menu, VisualEditor inserts as a default a blank four-by-four table. Now the "Table" menu is available. From that menu, you can add a caption to the top of the table.