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<p>Turns out don't need to write much. It's buried away in the help
pages! <br>
With examples even. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables</a><br>
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<p>Does suggest it isn't without downfalls mentioned - The amount of
mods required to get it looking nice being one<br>
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<p>Notepad++ is a good installment if you do a bit of notepad-ness.
Has a great find/replace feature. And colour formatting to help
along if you specify a code format.</p>
<p>You can go edit on a page, copy all the content to 2 notepad++
tabs. Edit one to your hearts content. Pasting back to the wiki
and use the preview to see if you got it right. If it all goes
wrong, there is still a backup on the 2nd tab.<br>
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<p>I tend to grab an existing table from another page, and have it
alongside as a reference/sanity check.<br>
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<p>As outlined in help, there are 2 ways of formatting. Always need
to start and end with brackets. <br>
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<p>Inline:</p>
<p>{|<br>
|Orange||Apple||more<br>
|-<br>
|}<br>
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<p>Or staggered. Which I find lets you look out for mis-counted
cells in the end product as you can see how many |s are between
each |- marker. Both end in same result of course.<br>
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<p>{|<br>
|Orange<br>
|Apple<br>
|-<br>
|}<br>
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<p>== Civil Defence Frequencies ==<br>
<pre><br>
VHF Repeaters<br>
142.8625 Rangitoto Repeater<br>
142.6625 Ranginui Repeater<br>
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Becomes:<br>
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== Civil Defence Frequencies ==<br>
{| class="wikitable"<br>
!colspan="2"| VHF Repeaters<br>
|-<br>
! Frequency !! Repeater<br>
|-<br>
|142.8625 <br>
|Rangitoto Repeater<br>
|-<br>
|142.6625 <br>
|Ranginui Repeater<br>
|-<br>
|}<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 at 17:32,
Craig <<a href="mailto:cokekid@orcon.net.nz"
moz-do-not-send="true">cokekid@orcon.net.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Do
we like the cleaner Wikitable formatting for some areas on the
wiki <br>
over basic pre-formatted text?<br>
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