Learning MediaWiki
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Learning MediaWiki markup language
- MediaWiki, the software on which this website is built, uses a different kind of markup language from HTML. Some people call it wikitext but there actually is no consensus on a name for it. It is similar to Google's Markdown language, but is by no means the same. While some of the syntax uses similar formats, they are two distinct, non-interchangable, languages.
- Actually, under the hood MediaWiki Markup language is converted into HTML by the MediaWiki software, so to say it is not HTML is a little bit misleading, but don't try to write pure HTML in a wiki editor and expect to see what you would if you simply uploaded HTML to a Web server.
wikitext help
- Here are a few sites that provide more help than wading through the many, many webpages in the MediaWiki online technical manual, as well as some interesting background.
- This site provides some clear information
- Yes, while the MediaWiki manual is confusing, this is a decent reference for basic editing.
- this Wikipedia article compares the syntax of different markup languages, including HTML and MediaWiki (which is used to write Wikipedia).
