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Wikitext is a document written in a wiki markup language, used on Mediawiki sites such as wikipedia.org.

From MediaWiki.org:

Wikitext is a document written in a wiki markup language, such as the current one explained in Help:Editing (see also Markup spec/DTD). It is a mixture of content, markup, and metadata. The current and old versions of all pages of a wiki are stored in the database in the text table, in the form of wikitext.

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Wiki Template for Page Design

I'm new to Wikia, and I'm trying to develop/moderate one. This wiki is intended to cover a very specific class of information, such that the information can be explained in the context of a few clearly defined fields. So, what I want to do is…
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Does Wikimedia supports other formats for storing data rather than wiki text?

I have some XML files that I need to store in Wikimedia. The obvious alternative will be to parse the content, format it with WikiText markup and store it. I would like to know if Wikimedia supports natively (or through plugins) other formats to…
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how to show wiki markup text in reactjs project?

I scraped some Wikipedia pages and want to show them in my private web page. My private webpage written in reactJS, so I wonder if there is a lib/method to load and show wiki text/wiki markup in reactJS.
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Triggering a JS inside JS?

I want to trigger this JS, this JS parses wikitext to HTML, by taking the value from the current text of the wikieditor. To get the current value of wikieditor, I used this $('#wpTextbox1').val() Wikieditor
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PCRE recursive pattern with 1st level condition {{1st-level-test: anything {{ne{{s}}ted}} }}

I want to match nested Wiki functions or wiki parser functions that start with a functionname and then a colon, but as soon as I try to get the recursive pcre regex working with a 1st level test I fail to construct a regex pattern. I want to match…
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Mediawiki: How to prevent images in wikitext from beeing rendered in html?

To offer a mobile version of an existing mediawiki installation I was looking for a practicable way to remove all images from output. The most preferred solution would be one where the generated html would no longer contain the image-tags. As I was…
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Extracting information from specific template on wikimedia api

I'm wondering what the easiest way to extract only the information contained withing a certain template would be using the wikimedia api. I'd like to extract the information contained in the template "Template:Mycomorphbox" for this page:…
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Escape = character in wiki section title

How to escape a "=" in a wiki Section title? And more than one? Some examples: ===== renders as a 2nd level title "=" (and not a first level "==="). ==== renders as "==" 1st level title (and not an empty 2nd level title). How to make a === as first…
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XML Parsing for Mediawiki link

I have this link http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&titles=panadol&prop=revisions&rvprop=content I need to get the content inside tag. so I used this code private void HttpsCompleted(object sender,…
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How to specify random group position, instead of sequence, in Regular Expressions?

I’m trying to use the available Wiktionary data dump downloads, which I have been translating with Java and its regex classes, specifically Pattern and Matcher, with fair success. The word definition dumps, which are my main interest, are in raw…
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Is there any HTML to WikiText translator?

Is there any HTML to WikiText translator? I need to translate tables with hyperlinks and images inside.
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How to render the wiki markup obtained using MediaWiki in rails 3

I have a page which uses the MediaWiki gem to extract wiki details and show it to the user. The user enters what they want to search for and then using MediaWiki gem I fetch the data and image. I am able to show the images but unable to render the…
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How to run Lua code directly inline with Scribunto

I have a very short piece of lua code (example: os.date("%Z") ). I want to know if it is possible (currently or planned) to invoke that code directly on the same page, rather than creating a module with only one function, which job is to call that…
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Render wikitext with Python

I need to render wikitext (pulled from the database of a mediawiki of it's relevant) and display in some other format (ultimately to be rendered as a PDF, but basically any other format will do). I can definately hack together something that does…
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How to Parse Some Wiki Markup

Hey guys, given a data set in plain text such as the following: ==Events== * [[312]] – [[Constantine the Great]] is said to have received his famous [[Battle of Milvian Bridge#Vision of Constantine|Vision of the Cross]]. * [[710]] –…
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