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It could take me a few years to add border="1" manually to all the tables on wikipedia pages. Try pasting the previous version of the table into email to see the problem. See this version diff: Try pasting the table into email, or into web page editors. See the list table in this page: w:List of countries by tax revenue as percentage of GDP I added border="1" to the table wikicode. Timeshifter 16:13, 31 March 2008 (UTC) Here is another example. It is not as pretty as what the full CSS produces, but at least it is a legible table with borders. Here below is one variation of what people would see in email, and outside web pages, by adding border="1" Number of persons held in State or Federal prisons or in local jails, 1995-2005
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People would still see the above table on wikipedia pages. It would still look exactly the same as before: Number of persons held in State or Federal prisons or in local jails, 1995-2005 This change would make no difference in how readers would see the wikitable on wikipedia pages. State and Federal prisoner counts for 1995-2003 are for December 31.ĪPersons in custody per 100,000 residents in each reference year.īTotal counts include Federal inmates in non-secure privately operated facilities: 6,143 in 2000, 6,192 in 2001, 6,598 in 2002, 6,471 in 2003, 6,786 (June) and 7,065 (December) in 2004, and 7,233 in June, 2005. Note: Jail counts are for midyear (June 30) and exclude persons who were supervised outside of a jail facility. Number of persons held in State or Federal prisons or in local jails, 1995-2005Īverage annual change, 12/31/95 - 6/30/05 Here is an example of how that wikitable shows up in email: Please see the wikitable below the image table on this image description page: Otherwise an important aspect of info presentation (tables) will not be shared much via wikipedia. Therefore it is important that HTML tables show up with borders. See commons:Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia#Hotlinking Wikipedia is more likely to block hotlinking to those locations probably. It is even less likely that the image tables would show up in email archives. So image tables may not show up in email either. Wikipedia images can't or shouldn't be hotlinked, I believe. Right now the tables end up without borders in email, and in many web pages, because many people do not want to use CSS to define class="wikitable". People paste all, or part of, wikipedia articles frequently into email or web page editors. Then wikitables would be much more useful to the world. I noticed that the table borders disappear when wikitables are pasted into email and web page editors.įor class="wikitable" tables could border="1" be added to the table header in the HTML of the wiki article itself instead of to CSS?įor example the wikitable template would produce this in the article HTML: So the tables lose their borders when pasted into web pages, blogs, or email. The standard table created by the table button in the Wikipedia editing form does not add the necessary bit of code to solve this problem. Wikitable borders in email and outside web pages