Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets

TL;DR

The paper presents Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets, enabling users to access and manipulate Wikipedia data directly within spreadsheets, facilitating easier data integration and analysis.

Contribution

It introduces an open-source toolkit that integrates Wikipedia data into Google Spreadsheets, enhancing data accessibility and usability within a popular online spreadsheet platform.

Findings

Tools are freely available on GitHub

Facilitates working with Wikipedia data in spreadsheets

Enhances data analysis capabilities within Google Spreadsheets

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets. Google Spreadsheets is part of a free, Web-based software office suite offered by Google within its Google Docs service. It allows users to create and edit spreadsheets online, while collaborating with other users in realtime. Wikipedia is a free-access, free-content Internet encyclopedia, whose content and data is available, among other means, through an API. With the Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets, we have created a toolkit that facilitates working with Wikipedia data from within a spreadsheet context. We make these tools available as open-source on GitHub [https://github.com/tomayac/wikipedia-tools-for-google-spreadsheets], released under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.