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A free open source tool to convert from CSV and Excel files to wiki table format: csv2other; Spreadsheet-to-MediaWiki-table-Converter 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. [2]
In the current version the export format does not contain an XML replacement of wiki markup (see Wikipedia DTD for an older proposal, or Wiki Markup Language). You only get the wikitext as you get when editing the article. (After export you can use alternative parsers to convert wikitext to other format)
Disable any categories by inserting a colon before the word "Category", e.g. change [[Category:Living people]] to [[:Category:Living people]], or by using the {{Draft categories}} template. Non-free content cannot be included in draft articles, per Wikipedia's policy on where non-free media is allowed. Any desired non-free content should be ...
LibreOffice Writer is free. It can open almost any file format. It can export to Mediawiki: File menu > export > save as type > MediaWiki. It will save the file as a .txt file which can be opened with any text editor. 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 ...
Selecting "Level 2" will format text as a main heading, the most frequently used subdivision of any page. "Level 3" gives you a subheading for a Level 2 heading, and so on. To create a heading without using the toolbar, put text between = signs; the number of = signs on each side of the text indicates the level: ==Heading== (Level 2 ...
Save the page. Copy it to Excel2Wiki to strip all the templates out, and keep the full names. Copy to a sandbox. Or skip excel2wiki and copy to a spreadsheet such as LibreOffice Calc: Edit menu > paste special > paste unformatted text. Alphabetize by the full names: Data menu > Sort ascending.
Editing most Wikipedia pages is simple. Wikipedia uses two interface methods: classic editing with the Source Editor through wikitext (wiki markup), and a new VisualEditor (VE). Wikitext editing using the Source Editor is chosen by clicking the Edit source tab at the top of a Wikipedia page (or on a section-edit link). This opens an editable ...
Important: Divide the material into sections if they are not already present. Add appropriate links and disambiguate if required. Linking should occur only on the first appearance of a term, except in a longer article, where a term will be linked once in the lead and once in the body of the article.