Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets
This provides a practical tool for users needing to integrate Wikipedia data into spreadsheets, but it is incremental as it builds on existing APIs and platforms.
The paper introduces Wikipedia Tools for Google Spreadsheets, a toolkit that enables users to work with Wikipedia data directly within Google Spreadsheets, making it available as open-source software.
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.