01-11-2022, 06:15 PM
Getting the list is no voodoo - just takes a little bit of manual work and two utilities to boot, LibreOffice (or any other tables editor capable of handling .csv files) and Notepad++ (or usual Windows' Notepad).
What I did was:
1. Selected whole games list table on Wikipedia
2. Hit [CTRL]+[C] to copy it
3. Opened LibreOffice's Calc (tables editor) or the like
4. [CTRL]+[V] to paste the list. It hanged a little but pasted the games table properly
5. Selected _headers_ of all columns except one with game names
6. Right click on selected headers > 'delete columns'. There's a dedicated button for that but I'm keeping missing it somehow...
7. File > Save As, save it anywhere with .csv file type. LibreOffice will ask which symbols you would like to use as separators, delimeters, etc, etc - no symbols, all empty in each option of this kind. .csv is purest tables format which lacks redundant beautifications, scripts, etc - just what we need for following steps
8. Open the resulting file in Notepad++ or the like
9. [CTRL]+[F], 'Find and Replace' tab, insert • symbol into Find row and make sure that Replace row is empty
10. Replace All to get rid of these redundant extra symbols which Wikipedia crew sprayed all over the list
aaaaand, it's ready to be copied and pasted into Importer extension's prompt!
Scrolling through whole list to make sure that no extra 'appendages' from Wikipedia's table persisted is still adviced though.
What I did was:
1. Selected whole games list table on Wikipedia
2. Hit [CTRL]+[C] to copy it
3. Opened LibreOffice's Calc (tables editor) or the like
4. [CTRL]+[V] to paste the list. It hanged a little but pasted the games table properly
5. Selected _headers_ of all columns except one with game names
6. Right click on selected headers > 'delete columns'. There's a dedicated button for that but I'm keeping missing it somehow...
7. File > Save As, save it anywhere with .csv file type. LibreOffice will ask which symbols you would like to use as separators, delimeters, etc, etc - no symbols, all empty in each option of this kind. .csv is purest tables format which lacks redundant beautifications, scripts, etc - just what we need for following steps
8. Open the resulting file in Notepad++ or the like
9. [CTRL]+[F], 'Find and Replace' tab, insert • symbol into Find row and make sure that Replace row is empty
10. Replace All to get rid of these redundant extra symbols which Wikipedia crew sprayed all over the list
aaaaand, it's ready to be copied and pasted into Importer extension's prompt!
Scrolling through whole list to make sure that no extra 'appendages' from Wikipedia's table persisted is still adviced though.