Board Thread:Eureka Moments/@comment-32738051-20160311133454/@comment-24668482-20160311143222

A wiki text template like this will only work if you switch from the visual editor to the source editor, and enter the wiki text there. This is true whether you use the new visual editor or the classic visual editor.

Alternatively, you could use the little arrow next to the blue 'edit profile' button of your profile and select 'classic editor' from the options that appear. This will bring up the classic visual editor, which supports tables.



In the classic visual editor, there is a bar running along the right hand side of the screen that contains the publish button as well as other features. Under the 'add features and media' section there is an add table option (after video, with an image of a grid as symbol for table).



Clicking on this option will bring up a table properties dialogue, where you can set the number of columns and rows, define whether the first row or first column (or neither) is used as the header (bolded), and allow you to set other things like alignment, spacing, a caption etc should you wish.



Press okay, and an empty table will appear on the page that you can just type into as normal.



This avoids the use of wiki text for those not comfortable using it.

In terms of a wiki text template, you might find this would remove the need for the extra unused column at start (presumably to force away from left margin?):

although I would personally start with: {|  class="article-table" align="center" border="2"

to add the default grey table styling.

You can get help adding tables at Help:Tables and examples of formatting using wiki text at Help:Wikitext/table_examples