[Mediawiki-l] Importing an Excel Spread sheet (Jan Steinman)

[Chris Reigrut]

Another slightly easier option is to use the SimpleTable extension 
(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleTable) to display a CSV 
export.
> From: Jan Steinman <Jan at Bytesmiths.com
>> From: "DaveM" <davem at triumphtalk.com>
>>
>> Is there anyway to import a spreadsheet into my Wiki. I have quite a  
>> bit of
>> information I need to place in my WiKi and it is on an excel  
>> spreadsheet.
>> Now to have to make up tables for all this will take me forever so  
>> is there
>> an easer way of getting this into my WikI beside just adding the  
>> spread
>> sheet as a download
>>     
>
> <snip>
> Another way that's more interactive is to export them as CSV files,  
> import them into their own tables in MySQL, then use the sql2wiki  
> extension to display them. This is much more versatile, but can only  
> be done on a trusted site, as you generally don't want just anyone  
> sending arbitrary SQL to your database. You can also update and change  
> the tables at will, and have the changes instantly show up on the wiki.
> </snip>
>   

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