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Convert MediaWiki to Excel Online

Paste a MediaWiki table below, edit it if you need to, and get Excel back. The conversion runs in your browser, so nothing is uploaded, there is no size limit and there is no signup.

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What MediaWiki is

MediaWiki table markup opens with {| and a class, marks headers with an exclamation mark and rows with |-.

Wikipedia editors and anyone running a MediaWiki install.

What Excel is

An Excel workbook is a zip archive of XML parts describing sheets, cells, formulas, styles and charts. The .xlsx extension is that format; .xls is the older binary one from before 2007.

Finance, operations and anyone who received a file from finance or operations.

What changes when you convert MediaWiki to Excel

Both cell styles are read: one cell per line, and several on a line separated by exclamation marks or double pipes, which is the form most Wikipedia tables use. Cell attributes before a single pipe are dropped, since style="text-align:right" is presentation rather than data. Wiki links come through as their display text, so [[France|the French Republic]] arrives as the French Republic, and reference markers are removed.

You get a single sheet with a header row and column widths sized to the content. Values are written as text unless type inference is on, which keeps identifiers like 0044 or 007 intact.

What carries over from MediaWiki to Excel

MediaWiki records 2 things about a table that Excel has no way to hold.

Excel wants a type for each column, and MediaWiki does not record one, so each column is typed from what its values look like. A column of digits that should stay text - a zip code, a phone number, a leading-zero id - is the usual thing to check afterwards.

MediaWiki can hold a value that is itself a list or an object. Excel has only flat cells, so nested values are flattened into one cell rather than being spread across columns.

Excel has no separate idea of a header, so the column names become an ordinary first row and nothing in the file marks them as different from the data.

Questions

How do I convert MediaWiki to Excel?

Paste your MediaWiki into the box above or drop the file onto it. Check the table in the grid, then copy or download the Excel from the output panel. It takes one step and the data never leaves your browser.

Does converting to Excel keep my formulas?

No. A table has values, not formulas. If your source came from Excel in the first place, the formulas were already resolved to their results before they reached this page. Anything that was =SUM(A1:A10) arrives as the number it produced.

What happens to nested values?

Excel has no nested cell, so a list or object inside a MediaWiki value is flattened into a single cell rather than expanded into extra columns. Split it before converting if the parts need to be separate.

Is there a limit on file size?

No. The work happens on your own machine, so the limit is your machine's memory rather than an upload cap. A file with tens of thousands of rows converts in a second or two.

Is my data uploaded anywhere?

No. The parsing and generating are done by JavaScript running on this page. You can watch the network tab while you convert and see that nothing is sent.

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