WikiText Markup Language

A WikiText Markup Language is a lightweight markup language that is used to create wiki pages.

• Context:
  • It can be used to create a WikiText Document.
  • It can be parsed by a Wiki Markup Parser.
  • It can include support for:
    • a WikiText Table.
    • a WikiText Math Statement.
    • a WikiText Template.
    • a WikiText Character.
  • It can be produced by a Wikitext Generation Task.
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• Example(s):
  • a Creole Wiki Markup Language;
  • a MediaWiki Markup Language;
  • a TikiWiki Markup Language;
  • an OddMuse Markup Language.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • an HTML Markup Language;
  • a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Format.
• See: Wiki Link.

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References

• http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_quick_reference

2013

• (Wikipedia, 2013) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikitext
  • Wikitext language, or wiki markup, is a lightweight markup language used to write pages in wiki websites, such as Wikipedia, and is a simplified alternative/intermediate to HTML. Its ultimate purpose is to be converted by wiki software into HTML, which in turn is served to web browsers. It was originally created in 1995 to format pages on the original wiki, WikiWikiWeb.

    There is no commonly accepted standard wikitext language. The grammar, structure, justification, keywords and so on depend on the particular wiki software used on the particular website. For example, all wikitext markup languages have a simple way of hyperlinking to other pages within the site, but there are several different syntax conventions for these links. Many wikis, especially the earlier ones, used CamelCase to mark words that should be automatically linked. In MediaWiki, this convention was replaced with the [[…]] notation, which Wikipedia calls "free links".

    Different Wiki programs may support use of different sets of HTML elements within wikitext. In some cases, permitted HTML elements may be configured by individual wiki sites. MediaWiki supports many common HTML tags.

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