GSOC 2009: Comparative table between MediaWiki and TikiWiki syntax

This page list all the MediaWiki syntax described at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec and the correspondent TikiWiki syntax (if any).

In the column "Suported by the importer" possible values are:

• yes (already working)
• partially supported (supported with some limitations that are explained in the comments)
• tricky (not implemented yet but the goal is to support before the end of the project)
• not supported (there are no plans to support this syntax during this project).

WikiMatrix also has a interesting comparative table in the bottom of this page.

Table of contents

• Unary
  • Start of the line only
  • Can be used anywhere
• Binary
  • Start of the line only
  • Can be used anywhere
  • HTML style tags
• Related

Unary

Start of the line only

MediaWiki syntax	Explanation	TikiWiki syntax	Comments	Supported by the importer
----	Horizontal line (4 or more hyphens)	---		yes
(space)	Pre-formatted text	(?)		not supported
*	Bulleted list	*		yes
#	Numbered list	#		yes
:	Indent with no marking	(?)		not supported
;Term: definition	Definition list	{DL()}One entry per line. Each line is in "Term: Definition" format.{DL}	Note for Rodrigo;Word:definition for definiton lists exists as well in Tiki	yes
{| ... |}	Table formating	|| ... ||	Mediawiki syntax for tables has more options than Tikiwiki for tables. To compare see Mediawiki tables and Tikiwiki tables. Just basic Mediawiki tables will be properly parsed by Tiki Importer	partially supported
#redirect or #REDIRECT (followed by wikilink)	Redirects wiki page	{REDIRECT(page="pageName")/}		yes

Can be used anywhere

MediaWiki syntax	Explanation	TikiWiki syntax	Comments	Supported by the importer
(magic words)	See magic words			not supported
~~~	There are three signatures (~~~, ~~~~, ~~~~~) but they are all replaced by text content when the edition is save so probably this doesn't need to be considered by the importer.		Signature and/or datestamp and/or approval-vote and/or comment plugin/syntax	yes
(magic links)	See magic links		HotWords could be extended	not supported
(templates)	See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates		There is a similar feature in Tiki?	not supported

See also Plugins and Plugin Alias, which permit some very powerful stuff. (which have different names in MediaWiki)

Binary

The ellipses (...) are used to indicate where the content goes and are not part of the markup.

Start of the line only

MediaWiki syntax	Explanation	TikiWiki syntax	Comments	Supported by the importer
= ... =	heading	!		yes
== ... ==	heading	!!		yes
=== ... ===	heading	!!!		yes
==== ... ====	heading	!!!!		yes
===== ... =====	heading	!!!!!		yes
====== ... ======	heading	!!!!!!		yes

Can be used anywhere

MediaWiki syntax	Explanation	TikiWiki syntax	Comments	Supported by the importer
[... ...]	External link (space separates optional first parameter, which is display text)	[...|...]		yes
[[...|...]]	Internal wiki link (vertical bars separates optional first parameter, which is display text)	((...|...))		yes
[[Image:...|...]]	Image (vertical bars separates optional parameters). See extended image syntax	{img src=""}		yes
[[category:...|...]]	Category (first parameter: sort order in category list).	(Tiki categories)		not supported
'' ... ''	Italic	'' ... ''		yes
''' ... '''	Bold	__ ... __		yes
''''' ... '''''	Bold + Italic	''__ ... __''	Text_Wiki bug 16455 fixed. Fully bold and italic syntax combinations supported.	yes

NOTE: [[Image: ...]] and [[category: ...]] are localized. For exemple, in a portuguese installation of MediaWiki we have [[Imagem: ...]] and [[Categoria: ...]] .

HTML style tags

The syntax bellow uses less than and greater than characters, but this is omitted in the table because of tikiwiki parser limit (or is it possible to display then?).

"MediaWiki syntax	Explanation	TikiWiki syntax	Comments	Supported by the importer
nowiki	Do not interpret wiki markup	~np~ ... ~/np~		yes
pre	Do not interpret wiki markup, do not flow text	~pp~ ... ~/pp~		yes
math	See Manual:Math		Could it be achived with an upgraded version of PluginFormula (in mods)? or with ASCIIMathML.js as explained here	not supported
html			Can use PluginHTML	yes
gallery	See Gallery of images		Could it be achieved with PluginImage ?	not supported
onlyinclude, noinclude, includeonly	See Control template inclusion			not supported

Related

Support some of the MediaWiki syntax that doesn't conflict with TikiWiki syntax

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