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Making tables using data from Excel

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Making tables using data from Excel

JakeSilberman at 22:01, 9 June 2016

2016-06-09T22:01:50Z

JakeSilberman: /* Math */

2016-06-09T21:58:51Z

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JakeSilberman: /* Making tables using data from Excel */

2016-06-09T21:56:43Z

Making tables using data from Excel

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Useful tools

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ShoebMohammed: Created page with "Wiki content is easy to edit and create. Content is written in a markup language, and the basic markup is provided below. There are also links to 'official' help sources. But..."

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Created page with "Wiki content is easy to edit and create. Content is written in a markup language, and the basic markup is provided below. There are also links to 'official' help sources. But..."

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Wiki content is easy to edit and create. Content is written in a markup language, and the basic markup is provided below. There are also links to 'official' help sources. But first you should know that each page comes with it's own discussion page that you access using the tab at the tab (it is next to the edit tab). If you are unsure about some content, or want to discuss it, you should add your insights and comments there and not on the page itself!

==Official Sources==

This wiki runs on the MediaWiki platform that is used for wikipedia. Wikipedia provides the following pages that will help you:
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page How to edit a page]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup Details of the wiki markup language]

Likewise, the mediawiki developers and community provide the following useful pages:
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#Basic_usage MediaWiki FAQ - Basic Usage Section]
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing MediaWiki Help Editing Page]
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page How to start a new page]

==Useful tools==

There's a wikipedia page on tools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools

I think this VBA code (with instructions on how to use it) is the best way to convert tables from excel to wiki: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technik/Text/Basic/EXCEL-Tabellenumwandlung/en

==Quick Hints==

Wiki pages are written in a very simple markup language. You can click the edit button on any page and enter marked-up content into the box and click save, and the new changes will appear instantly on the page. You can probably deduce all of the markup that you need by looking at an existing page, but as a quick reference the most used syntax is provided below. (Note that if you look at the source code, you will see that the <nowiki><nowiki></nowiki></nowiki>tag is used to prevent the wiki from interpreting the code.

===Making tables using data from Excel===

For now, use [http://excel2wiki.net/wikipedia.php| this website] to paste data from Excel and then convert it to a format usable in Wiki. At a later date or possibly later today Carlin will figure out how to do this without using an external website (possibly by using a plugin).

===Bullets, Indents and Boxes===

At the start of a line:
*<nowiki>* to bullet</nowiki>
*<nowiki># to number bullet</nowiki>
*<nowiki>: to indent</nowiki>
*<nowiki> (space) to put things in a box</nowiki>

Now let's see them again in action:
*<nowiki>to bullet</nowiki>
#<nowiki>to number bullet</nowiki>
:<nowiki>to indent</nowiki>
<nowiki>to put things in a box</nowiki>

===Headers===

To make headers heirarchiarly (TOC is automatic) use:
*<nowiki>=Page header=</nowiki>
*<nowiki>==Section header==</nowiki> - The Quick Hint Section uses this
*<nowiki>===Sub-Section header===</nowiki> - "Headers" is a sub-section
*<nowiki>====Sub-Sub-Section header===</nowiki>

===Links===

There are two types of links:
*<nowiki>[http:/www... Text that you want] are external links</nowiki>
*<nowiki>[[WikiPage | Text that you want] or just [[WikiPage]] are internal links</nowiki>

With the first link, a space after the URL indicated that the text that follows is the label. With the second link, the text following the pipe <nowiki>(|)</nowiki> indicates the label. You can leave the pipe and text off and then the page link will show up as the page name, like this: <nowiki>[[BPP]]</nowiki> gives [[BPP]].

===Create A Page===

If you want to create a new page, make a link to a page name that doesn't exist, save the page, and then click the link!

===Basic Text Formatting===

Use text formatting sparingly:
*To make things ''italic'' put them in two quotes: <nowiki>''italic''</nowiki>
*To make things '''bold''' put them in three quotes: <nowiki>'''bold'''</nowiki>
*To make things '''''bold-italic''''' put them in five quotes: <nowiki>''''bold-italic'''' </nowiki>

===Images===

First, [[Special:Upload|upload a file]] (there's a link in the toolbox to the right). Then link to that file. More information on how to align, scale, or otherwise process images is available from [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images mediawiki's help pages]

===Math===

And we wouldn't feel like proper PhD students if we couldn't render some math. LaTex is fully supported. Just add a <nowiki><math>...</math></nowiki> tag around any LaTex like you would normally use either $...$ or $$...$$.

For example:

:I am <math>\succ </math> you.

You might also want to see the [[Help using LaTeX]] page!

===Transclusion===

Transclusion is a way to include pages, or text from pages in other pages. See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Transclusion

On the source page you can:
*Include tags like <nowiki> <onlyinclude> ... </onlyinclude></nowiki> so that only the selected section will appear on transcluded pages
*Include links to the pages itself, like <nowiki> [[Editing Content]]</nowiki>. On the source page these 'links' will appear as bold text, but on the transcluded page they appear as a link.

On the target page, you can include the transcluded page (or section thereof) by using:
*<nowiki>{{:PageName}}</nowiki>

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 ===Making tables using data from Excel===
-Use [http://www.tablesgenerator.com/mediawiki_tables this website] to paste data from Excel and convert it to a format usable in Wiki. click File->Paste table data.
+Use [http://www.tablesgenerator.com/mediawiki_tables this website] to paste data from Excel and convert it to a format usable in Wiki. Click File->Paste table data.
 ===Bullets, Indents and Boxes===

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 ===Making tables using data from Excel===
-Use [http://excel2wiki.net/wikipedia.php this website] to paste data from Excel and convert it to a format usable in Wiki.
+Use [http://www.tablesgenerator.com/mediawiki_tables this website] to paste data from Excel and convert it to a format usable in Wiki. click File->Paste table data.
 ===Bullets, Indents and Boxes===

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−	Wiki content is easy to edit and create. Content is written in a markup language, and the basic markup is provided below. There are also links to 'official' help sources. But first you should know that each page comes with ~~it's~~ own discussion page that you access using the tab at the tab (it is next to the edit tab). If you are unsure about some content, or want to discuss it, you should add your insights and comments there and not on the page itself!	+	Wiki content is easy to edit and create. Content is written in a markup language, and the basic markup is provided below. There are also links to official help sources. But first you should know that each page comes with its own discussion page that you access using the tab at the tab (it is next to the edit tab). If you are unsure about some content, or want to discuss it, you should add your insights and comments there and not on the page itself!

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 ===Making tables using data from Excel===
-Use [http://excel2wiki.net/wikipedia.php| this website] to paste data from Excel and convert it to a format usable in Wiki.
+Use [http://excel2wiki.net/wikipedia.php this website] to paste data from Excel and convert it to a format usable in Wiki.
 ===Bullets, Indents and Boxes===

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 ==Useful tools==
-There's a wikipedia page on tools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools
+Wikipedia tools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools
 Instructions for converting tables from excel to wiki using VBA code: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technik/Text/Basic/EXCEL-Tabellenumwandlung/en

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 ===Math===
-And we wouldn't feel like proper PhD students if we couldn't render some math. LaTex is fully supported. Just add a <nowiki><math>...</math></nowiki> tag around any LaTex like you would normally use either $...$ or $$...$$.
+LaTex is fully supported. Just add a <nowiki><math>...</math></nowiki> tag around any LaTex like you would normally use either $...$ or $$...$$.
 For example:

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 There's a wikipedia page on tools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools
-I think this VBA code (with instructions on how to use it) is the best way to convert tables from excel to wiki: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technik/Text/Basic/EXCEL-Tabellenumwandlung/en
+Instructions for converting tables from excel to wiki using VBA code: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technik/Text/Basic/EXCEL-Tabellenumwandlung/en
 ==Quick Hints==