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A template is a Wikipedia page created to be included in other pages. It usually contains repetitive material that may need to show up on multiple articles or pages, often with customizable input. Templates sometimes use MediaWiki parser functions, nicknamed "magic words", a simple scripting language. Template pages are found in the template ...
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:
mw:Help:Tables: MediaWiki help page on tables. m:Wiki markup tables: Meta-Wiki information on tables. 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
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.
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 provides a variety of methods to modify the style.
A simple trick allows to protect the "|" in template parameter values while still arriving as real "|" delimiter in the Wiki table, see the magic word {{!}}. Note that "!" Note that "!" (exclamation mark) has no problems with templates, it's the other delimiter used in Wiki tables.
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.