finiki:Tools
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There are various tools and tutorials available that are intended to simplify, make more efficient, or provide additional functionality to finiki contributors.
Template messages
A number of commonly used wiki elements have been created as Template messages, making it more efficient (and consistent) to use these common wiki building blocks.
Converting content to finiki (Mediawiki) format
A comprehensive collection of information about converting content is maintained at Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files - Wikimedia Commons.
In addition, Wikipedia and finiki editors have found the following tools particularly useful when creating content for finiki.
Spreadsheets
To convert from spreadsheets (such as those produced by Gnumeric, Microsoft Excel, or LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org/StarOffice Calc), you can use the Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki converter, tab2wiki, or the MediaWiki Tables Generator.
You can save spreadsheets as .csv and use the CSV to Wikitable converter. Another version is here. It has a useful auto-detect function for the delimiter.
The CSV Converter converts comma-separated values (CSV) format to table wikitext or to HTML. See (documentation). You may use this to import tables from both spreadsheets and databases (such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, FileMaker, Microsoft SQL Server & Access, Oracle, DB2, etc.).
See also
Further reading
- Daniel J. Barrett, MediaWiki, O'Reilly, 2008, ISBN 0-596-51979-6
External links
- Wikipedia:Tools covers a more comprehensive set of tools for Wikipedia. Note: Not all may work on finiki due to installation requirements.