I don't think there is any script to do exactly what you are asking John.

I myself wrote a variety of PHP scripts to strip tables out of Wiki markup 
pages, and manipulate the contents into other plain HTML tables, with some 
other tweaks, and a bit of JavaScript thrown in for giggles (OK to sort on the 
fly but you know.)

It wouldn't be more than a few hours, to make the table rewrite in CSV

BUT you need to be able to code in all that natively yourself :)




-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Steinman <[email protected]>
To: mediawiki-l <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, Jan 23, 2014 10:05 am
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Looking for way to automatically create or update a  
Page


> From: john boris <[email protected]>
> 
> I have a Wiki page that holds a table of data. I have the data in an Excel
> file and also as a flat ASCI file. I am looking for a way to automate the
> updating of the page so when I make a change to the file on my one system I
> can run the script and it will make the changes on my Wiki.

John, I don't know of a simple way to do that without writing some "glue" code.

However, I am using the SQL2Wiki extension (heavily modified) to maintain data 
in MySQL (using MyPhpAdmin) and display it in MediaWiki.

Due to the possibility of SQL injection, I do not recommend this for open 
wikis. 
I only have trusted users, plus I protect pages with SQL on them, and restrict 
permissions to SELECT only on the user role that has access from MediaWiki.

Although I don't use it, it is possible to automagically go MySQL <--> Excel 
using Connector/ODBC.

Here's links to tons of example output:
        http://www.EcoReality.org/wiki/Statistics

You can get SQL2Wiki from the MediaWiki extensions, or I can send you my 
heavily 
modified version, which I think is much better. :-)

Jan

On 2014-01-23, at 09:25, [email protected] wrote:

> From: john boris <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [MediaWiki-l] 
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> I have a Wiki page that holds a table of data. I have the data in an Excel
> file and also as a flat ASCI file. I am looking for a way to automate the
> updating of the page so when I make a change to the file on my one system I
> can run the script and it will make the changes on my Wiki.
> 
> If there is a script that can do this can I get a pointer to it? I have
> been searching and haven't found anything.
> 
> TIA
> 
> -- 
> John J. Boris, Sr.
> Online Services
> www.onlinesvc.com

:::: As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never 
nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with 
intellectual food. -- I. Watts
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::


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