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The wiki now contains a bunch of HTML tables

moin2commonmark.py converts Moin wiki pages to CommonMark using Pandoc. As a result, our wiki tables are now HTML. This means that table-heavy pages such as https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/wikis/Development/Support_library_version_tracking are more difficult to update.

We can convert simple tables to GitLab Flavored Markdown using Tables Generator. I've converted a few of the Support_library_version_tracking tables by doing the following:

  1. Install the Copytables Chrome extension.
  2. Load Support_library_version_tracking in a Chrome tab.
  3. Right-click on a table and select "Table → Copy… → CSV"
  4. In Tables Generator, go to "File → Paste table data…" and paste.
  5. Click "Generate", then "Copy to clipboard".
  6. Open the wiki page editor, select the corresponding HTML table markup, and paste the GFM markup.

Unfortunately this process doesn't convert links -- you have to add them back manually.

Edited by Gerald Combs