#wikitext — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wikitext, aggregated by home.social.
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in today's accidentally cursed #wikitext, a username that ends with ! combined with the stock text "Hello $username!" creates a literal !!, which just so happens to be table markup to create a new cell, so it blows up the template: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AClick_this_username_please%21&diff=1340285003&oldid=1340165363
(more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Legobot#c-Jonesey95-20260224221100-Gonnym-20260224070300)
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#Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead
https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/Here's my article where I summarize the subtle and no so subtle downsides when you choose Markdown for your information instead of a different markup syntax that doesn't come with all the downsides of #MD.
#publicvoit #orgdown #orgmode #LML #pandoc #rst #restructuredtext #asciidoc #Wikitext #BBCode #Creole #Crossmark #Djot #CommonMark #lockin
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#Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead
https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/Here's my article where I summarize the subtle and no so subtle downsides when you choose Markdown for your information instead of a different markup syntax that doesn't come with all the downsides of #MD.
#publicvoit #orgdown #orgmode #LML #pandoc #rst #restructuredtext #asciidoc #Wikitext #BBCode #Creole #Crossmark #Djot #CommonMark #lockin
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#Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead
https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/Here's my article where I summarize the subtle and no so subtle downsides when you choose Markdown for your information instead of a different markup syntax that doesn't come with all the downsides of #MD.
#publicvoit #orgdown #orgmode #LML #pandoc #rst #restructuredtext #asciidoc #Wikitext #BBCode #Creole #Crossmark #Djot #CommonMark #lockin
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#Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead
https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/Here's my article where I summarize the subtle and no so subtle downsides when you choose Markdown for your information instead of a different markup syntax that doesn't come with all the downsides of #MD.
#publicvoit #orgdown #orgmode #LML #pandoc #rst #restructuredtext #asciidoc #Wikitext #BBCode #Creole #Crossmark #Djot #CommonMark #lockin
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#Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead
https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/Here's my article where I summarize the subtle and no so subtle downsides when you choose Markdown for your information instead of a different markup syntax that doesn't come with all the downsides of #MD.
#publicvoit #orgdown #orgmode #LML #pandoc #rst #restructuredtext #asciidoc #Wikitext #BBCode #Creole #Crossmark #Djot #CommonMark #lockin
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Should I dare to do a "why #Markdown is one of the worst lightweight markup syntax languages there is"-session at a UX/UI-dominant #barcamp? 😜
C'mon, do push me over that cliff! 😆
Background: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/ 👉 it's related but would be a different focus since I won't push #orgdown that much - people can be happier with other LMLs as well as long as it's not the #MD hell. (Sneak preview: I'm writing a long article on all the MD issues in order to explain it once and for all since the Mastodon discussions are really annoying to me.)
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Fandom/ #Wikia support: "Sure, we I'll *try*¹ to gelp you with your request."
¹ in the event that 1 + 1 = 3, but don’t say, there's no case in which we'd help you
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Fandom/ #Wikia prefers to use their anxieties as an subterfuge rather than going to therapy
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Get yourself someone who embraces you like Fandom/ #Wikia embraces their paranoia …
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Is it possible to group by an included template value using the #MediaWiki extension DynamicPageList3 in #WikiCode/ #WikiText like this:
so it results in
| Topic | Title |
| --------- | ------- |
| | Z |
| A | Y |
| | X |
| --------- | ------- |
| | W |
| B | V |
| | U |1/2
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#MediaWiki uses the #Pygments syntax highlighter to enable rich formatting of code blocks: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight
diskdance has submitted a pull request to add a lexer to support #wikitext markup: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/pull/2373
Hopefully it'll be in a release soon, to be used in on-wiki help pages and documentation!
(h/t to rundg for spotting)
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#MediaWiki uses the #Pygments syntax highlighter to enable rich formatting of code blocks: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight
diskdance has submitted a pull request to add a lexer to support #wikitext markup: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/pull/2373
Hopefully it'll be in a release soon, to be used in on-wiki help pages and documentation!
(h/t to rundg for spotting)
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#Orgdown (= #OrgMode Syntax) Is One of the Most Reasonable #Markup Languages to Use for Text https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/
#publicvoit #LML #markdown #AsciiDoc #Wikitext #reStructuredText #rst #pandoc
