Table Edit in Mediawiki

Sunday, October 18, 2009 

I just installed Ecoli Hub’s TableEdit into MediaWiki.

It went moderately smoothly, except the update_schema.php script failed to prefix the tables, which meant that MediaWiki couldn’t find them.  It took me a little poking around to figure out what was happening, but I got an error that brtext_TableEdit_box couldn’t be found.  Now an unfortunate prefix choice in that it looked to me a bit like br text…  as opposed to brtExt, but once I figured that out I was on the way to a little editing with phpMyAdmin and everything worked.

TableEdit is a step in the right direction for interactive table editing, what I’d consider the biggest weakness of wiki’s at this point.  It seems most of the information I’d put in a wiki would be more efficiently formatted as tables, and as a result I have lots of non-interactive spreadsheets; something that gets confusing on frequently updated, collaboratively edited text.    WebDAV might be a solution for that, and maybe OpenOffice will get “open via sFTP” as an option soon, but until then EcoliHub’s solution is a step forward, though what I still really want is a viably speedy version of Dan Bricklin’s  wikicalc.

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A week of tweets: 2009-10-18

Sunday, October 18, 2009 
  • Self-righteous parent wants to rearrange first for her convenience. Don’t they know about IHIRT: infant hypoxia induced retardation trauma? #
  • Why doesn’t the ipod have a reset button? What insufferable hubris infected apple devs to think that their software Would Not Crash. Idiots. #
  • near 37.780743, -122.408539 http://tinyurl.com/yhterwg wtf is going on in downtwn sf? #
  • near 37.782115, -122.405411 ok, one possible presidential route, everything is hosed. thx. Really. http://twitpic.com/lo16y #

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