On 15 February 2017 at 06:21, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote: ...
Is it possible to have the records moved from the spreadsheet to Meta? I thought I once saw a record of these actions on Meta, but can't remember exactly where.
The unmaintained old wikitable is at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Advanced_Permissions
The process broke due to WMF staff edits changing the naming/format of the table and the underlying copying script having no flexibility to cater for this. For this reason I decided to stop investing my volunteer time maintaining the transfer using my own scripts.
The Google API can be used, but someone would need to take on longer term maintenance as the API has a history of changing - https://developers.google.com/sheets/. As far as I am aware there is not much appetite to produce tools to integrate the use of Google products into the way Wikimedians work. It would be great if the WMF could avoid the temptation of relying on Google, rather than encouraging employees to use WMF developed software that can do the same job; in this case using the Visual Editor to maintain a wikitable directly on Meta would be a pretty easy alternative.
Fae