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Laugh of the day: Pros and cons

I had to laugh, when I looked over at Help:Table/Advanced, and read the part you linked to that just got moved over to Help:Table/Advanced#Other table syntax (diff), including the part that lists the pros and cons of HTML tables versus wikicode syntax. In the row labeled "Pros" for the cell in the Wiki-pipe column (who named it that?) it lists "easy to read", and "easy to write"; I nearly had coffee coming out of my nose.

I searched back in Help:Table to see when that was first added, and it goes all the way back to the first version of Help:Table in revision 12094880 of 19:00, 20 September 2004 by Wilz (talk · contribs). Seriously made me want to add a laughing man gif or something, right after that part. Yah, it's so easy to read and write, that we only have twenty-six Help and style pages with intricate explanations of features and styles explaining how to do it, including how to have your pipe, and smoke it, too! Lol! But twenty years on and some 2500 edits by 600+ editors later explaining how easy it is, maybe it's time to change that. (On a more serious note, I've been thinking about a way to vastly reduce the size and number of help pages, but it's more of a long-term thing and not something that affects anything we are doing; I have to mull about it for "a while".)

Oh, I forgot to mention the funniest part: if you edit the § Overview section in that revision and look at that table—yep, you guessed it: it's coded in HTML. Guess it was too complex for "wiki-pipe syntax". Hope you enjoyed the chuckle. Mathglot (talk) 02:54, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Header cell translation

For translation, tables with identical header cells could be translated once and used several times in the ddme article.

For example, in List of Dongfeng vehicles, there are several tables with the same headers (structure).

One could use :

{| class="wikitable sortable translatable"

In the Voyah table, for the First header could stablish that:

Image, in the Spanish version is "Imagen"

For the second, Name(s) is "Nombre(s)" and so on for the full header structure of tehe table.

So, the second time this table structure is used for the M-Hero table, Imagen is automatically translated to Imagen (in the Spanish Wikipedia), Names to Nombres an so on.

This spares a lot of writer effort. 158.172.131.78 (talk) 21:41, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Need help

Can someone correct the first table at 2025 Greenlandic general election? Can't figure out how to fix it. Thanks. Semsûrî (talk) 17:25, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Semsûrî: There were too many rowspan= and colspan= attributes. The fix is to remove them all, and then add in only those that are necessary; which turned out to be just one - the one for the "Party" column heading. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:27, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Semsûrî (talk) 20:29, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rates per million. Change to rates per 100,000

See: United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time#Comparisons to other countries in Europe.

The rates in the US tables are per 100,000. So I want to convert the rates in the Europe table below from "per million" to "per 100,000". That means moving the decimal place one place to the left. Can someone do this for me?

Better yet can someone explain exactly how to do it step by step in Libreoffice Calc. I will put this info in a section in Help:Table/Advanced or another table help page.

Drug-induced mortality rates per million among adults (15-64), females, males and total.^[1]
Location	Year	Females	Males	Total
Austria	2022	18	65	42
Belgium	2020	7	34	21
Bulgaria	2022	1	8	4
Croatia	2022	13	71	42
Cyprus	2022	3	13	8
Czech Republic	2022	6	12	9
Denmark	2021	19	60	40
Estonia	2022	34	155	95
Finland	2022	33	106	70
France	2016	3	16	9
Germany	2022	10	49	30
Greece	2020	10	58	34
Hungary	2021	3	9	6
Ireland	2020	64	130	97
Italy	2022	2	13	8
Latvia	2022	12	96	53
Lithuania	2022	10	86	47
Luxembourg	2022	5	31	18
Malta	2020	6	43	26
Netherlands	2022	13	40	26
Norway	2022	53	118	86
Poland	2021	5	11	8
Portugal	2021	4	19	11
Romania	2022	1	3	2
Slovakia	2021	3	12	7
Slovenia	2022	16	74	46
Spain	2021	7	34	21
Sweden	2022	35	102	70
Turkey	2022	1	7	4