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The MediaWiki software suppresses single newlines and converts lines starting with a space to preformatted text in a dashed box. HTML suppresses multiple spaces. It is often desirable to retain these elements for poems, lyrics, mottoes, oaths and the like. The Poem extension adds HTML-like <poem>...</poem> tags to maintain newlines and spaces.
Semantic MediaWiki: Yes, bundled extension (VisualEditor) Yes, RSS/Atom Yes (RDF, JSON, CSV and other "result formats". Web UI, web API, shell) actions, handlers MediaWiki syntax Yes Yes [86] Internal query language, visual editor, extensions via PHP modules, collaboration [87] SharePoint Foundation Yes Yes, RSS feeds No Yes: themes, WebParts, API
Microsoft released an add-in that allows you to save your Microsoft Office Word 2007 or above documents straight into MediaWiki. Download the "Microsoft Office Word Add-in For MediaWiki" from Microsoft Download Center, and install it. Save the document as "MediaWiki (*.txt)" file type. Copy the text from the (*.txt) file into your Wiki page
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Some of the more useful tweaks are outlined below. Of course, you enter the code in Text Editor mode — if you enter it in WYSIWYG mode, it is entered using escape characters. Also, if you enter HTML in the Text Editor and switch to WYSIWYG mode, the HTML is lost and re-converted to markdown without styles.
MediaWiki’s wikitable class (class="wikitable") is designed for straightforward table formatting and enforces certain global styles that make removing borders between adjacent cells challenging even if custom CSS styles attempt to eliminate these borders. Specifically, the class includes:
MediaWiki stores rendered formulas in a cache so that the images of those formulas do not need to be created each time the page is opened by a user. To force the rerendering of all formulas of a page, you must open it with the getter variables action=purge&mathpurge=true .
Editing Wikipedia articles using a full-fledged text editor is often more convenient than a web browser's standard text area. Text editors provide facilities that are very useful for writing and editing articles (especially long articles), such as spell checking, search and replace, macros, syntax highlighting, and alphabetic sorting.