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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’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:
Copy the wiki code from the text file. You can save any web page as an HTML file, and then open it in LibreOffice Writer. Edit as needed. Remove the parts you don't want. Keep only tables for example. Then export to MediaWiki. Tables can be further edited in LibreOffice Calc. See: Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files ...
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.
m:Help:Sorting: Meta-Wiki information on sortable tables. m:Table background colors: MediaWiki background colors table. Commons:Chart and graph resources: Chart and graph resources at Commons; Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files: includes information on converting table markup. Commons:Template:SVG Chart.
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.
Select your MediaWiki-server (or click on the button "Add..." to add a new site). Select a title and summary for your article, check the box if it's a minor revision. Click the send button. Alternatively the manual 'export-function' can be used: File → Export → choose ‘MediaWiki (.txt)’-format.
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.