Hi Andrey, I don't have the time to help you with your specific problem, but I may be able to give you some hints. For example, your template has an interwiki link to the "Rijksmonument" template on the English Wikipedia, but this *should* be an interwiki link to the English translation of your Russian table row template. To help you I can show you what I did for the Belgian Wallonia lists. Belgium is tri-lingual (Dutch/German/French) so English seemed to be a logical place to put the lists where no one would object, since almost none of the lists are in all three languages, but are either in Dutch/French or Dutch/German or German/French. I made a Wallonia set of templates and starting translating the Dutch lists with Excel. I am no where near done so this is a work in progress, but you at least can follow what is happening on all language Wikipedias with the same data. By the way, this is hand work. There is no way you can easily update and synchronize lists across all Wikipedias. Here is a link to the English template for header: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Table_header_Wallonia Here is a link to the English template for row: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Table_row_Wallonia Unlike you, I had a structured list to begin with from the Dutch Wikipedia, and all I needed to do was add the English translation. With an excel macro, I first dumped the Dutch list into Excel and created an extra field for the English translation in the description parameter of the Table row template with this line: Selection.Replace What:="descr_nl", Replacement:="descr_en=house|descr_nl" I then translated the other fields as follows: What:="adres", Replacement:="address" What:="bouwjaar", Replacement:="date" What:="deelgemeente", Replacement:="town" What:="gemeente", Replacement:="section" Since most of the monuments are houses, the default "house" is now already in there, but to get the complete Dutch descriptions translated, I first extracted the Dutch descriptions, numbered them, and dumped them by numbered line into Google translate. The result was fairly usable but needs editting line by line. Then after I was done with the translations, I did a replace line by line with the replace formula: =REPLACE(A5;65;5;VLOOKUP(B5;'rows nl-en'!A:B;2;FALSE)) Sorry if this is too technical, I know there are a lot of Excel users out there who can't read this because they have a native version with different commands, but at least it gives the gist. I am sure you can easily do this with a Python script as well. good luck, Jane 2012/6/29 Андрій Бондаренко <a1(a)wikimediaukraine.org.ua>

Andrij, I was afraid you would say that! My point was to show how you can merge fields in one row in a list. This is assuming of course that your list is structured by line! The idea is that you first need to define all required fields (and potentially required fields) in the row template, and then you can merge two or more fields into one table row parameter. Similarly, you can add or leave fields out of the wikitable by adjusting the table header fields. If your lists are just 100% prose then of course it all remains quite a lot of work for one person and you will need the assistance of LOTS of volunteers, best, Jane 2012/6/29 Андрій Бондаренко <bondareandre(a)gmail.com>

Andrij, Again, I am a heavy Excel user, so I can only tell you how to do this in Excel. To do what you require, I would first dump the list into Notepad and then reimport it to Excel with the delimeter "|". This gives you columns for each field (including double columns for the "|", but that doesn't matter). Next I would replace the text "|" in the appropriate columns with the "|*parameter name* = " text and whn I am done, dump it back into notepad for further editting of the headers and footers etc. Once you have done one list, you can create an Excel macro to do this for all other lists. Jane 2012/6/30 Андрій Бондаренко <bondareandre(a)gmail.com>

Hi everybody, We have found quite a simple decision in the page http://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B1%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%… Thanks everybody for your replies, especially interesting was Maarten's idea (though it does not work, but I believe must). -- Andrij

Hi Andrij, Op 2-7-2012 9:41, Андрій Бондаренко schreef: That's not a solution. Unnamed variables won't work. This is just a workaround. Please just do it properly this time. Maarten

It seems to be interesting but how could it resolve the main issue - wikitable-to-template convertion? 2012/6/29 elya <ew_wp(a)web.de> -- Andrij