Talk:Wikitext

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[edit] Wikitext vs. WikiText

Eh, I think the right name is 'WikiText'. Why is the tag WikiText redirected to tag DocBook? And why is this item available under the 'Wikitext' tag although the right name is 'WikiText'? --Martin Kozák 23:20, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I don’t know why WikiText was redirecting to DocBook. But it seemed so odd—the DocBook article doesn’t even mention a case-insensitive WikiText—that I have changed the redirect. Perhaps someone will now tell us. Ian Spackman 16:30, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Converting to WikiText

  • Is there any software for converting, for example MS Word docs, to wikitext? Aaron McDaid (talk - contribs) 14:30, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Not to my knowledge. The different formats don't have enough in common. --*Wilfred* (talk) 17:53, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

: Yeah, that's a pity. However, there is a great Wikitext editor, wikEd. To install it, you have to edit your monobook.js page (see

wikEd help) - it just swithces ordinary edit toolbar. And it can convert formatting of the MS Word text.

This is the text I write in MS Word. It is very hard to transpose this formatting to WIKITEXT.

  1. But
  2. Now
  3. it
  4. is
  • really
  • simple
  • just
  • look
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Gerg ergergergergerg ger
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All you have to do is to write a text in MS Word, (or any other WordProc, I think) and to press a button called "Correct Wikitext" :D Simple, isn't it?? Piotr mil 17:00, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge from Wiki markup

Any reason not to merge the stub Wiki markup into this article? A simple redirect ought to do the trick. --MichaelZimmer (talk) 10:27, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Agree --Oblivious 11:01, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MediaWiki WikiText

WikiText is a general classification, which covers different lightweight markup languages used by a variety of wiki software; so is it appropriate to refer to the specific markup in Wikipedia as MediaWiki WikiText? Squideshi 02:39, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiCreole

Is there any chance that Wikipedia will adopt WikiCreole or any other standardized markup language? ste_nohype 10:15, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

The WikiCreole section appears to be entirely promotional as far as I can see, so I've removed it. I've also nominated its article for deletion as it does not appear to be notable. Vquex (talk) 16:41, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This page not as helpful as it could be

Could someone provide a key to the symbols/codes used found at the bottom of Editing pages (e.g.,