From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wiki markup
Wiki markup
permitted HTML elements may be configured by individ-
ual wiki sites. MediaWiki supports many common HTML
tags.
Standardization
Creole is an effort for a "common wiki markup language
to be used across different Wikis".[2] There are several
wiki engines that have implemented Creole.[3] Version
1.0 of the specification was released in July 2007.[4] It is
not supported by MediaWiki.
Wikitext is commonly used in Wikipedia References
[1] "Wikipedia:Free links". Wikipedia, the Free
language, markup,
Wikitext language or wiki markup is a lightweight
Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
markup language used to write pages in wiki websites,
Wikipedia:Free_links. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
such as Wikipedia, and is a simplified alternative/inter-
[2] "WikiCreole: Home". Wikicreole.org.
mediate to HTML. Its ultimate purpose is to be converted
http://www.wikicreole.org/. Retrieved
by wiki software into HTML, which in turn is served to
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web browsers.
[3] "WikiCreole: Engines". Wikicreole.org.
There is no commonly accepted standard wikitext
http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Engines.
language. The grammar, structure, justification, key-
Retrieved 2008-11-26.
words and so on depend on the particular wiki software
[4] "WikiCreole: Creole 1.0". Wikicreole.org.
used on the particular website. For example, all wikitext
http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0.
markup languages have a simple way of hyperlinking to
Retrieved 2008-11-26.
other pages within the site, but there are several differ-
ent syntax conventions for these links. Many wikis, es-
pecially the earlier ones, used CamelCase to mark words External links
that should be automatically linked. In MediaWiki, this
• What you see is Wiki - Questioning WYSIWYG in the
convention was replaced with the [[…]] notation, which
Internet Age
Wikipedia calls "free links".[1]
• MediaWiki alternative parsers
Different Wiki programs may support use of different
sets of HTML elements within wikitext. In some cases,
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Categories:
• Lightweight markup languages
• Wikis
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