It causes an automatic conversion of wikitext into the referring text when the referring page is saved; the template is macro expanded when the page is saved rather than, as usually happens, when the page is viewed.
Wikitext after substitution is often more complex than when the required wikitext would have been written directly.
In the case of substituting an ordinary template, the template tag is replaced by the wikitext of the template, with the parameter values substituted for the parameters.
After adding to or changing the wikitext it is useful to press "Preview", which produces the corresponding webpage in your browser but does not make it publicly available yet (not until you press "Save").
If the wikitext is not changed no edit will be recorded and the edit summary is discarded.
A dummy edit is a change in wikitext that has no effect on the rendered page, such as changing the number of newlines at some position from 0 to 1 or from 2 to 3 or conversely (changing from 1 to 2 makes a difference, see below).
Wikitext language or wiki markup is a markup language that offers a simplified alternative to HTML and is used to write pages in wiki websites.
The grammar, structure, features, keywords and so on are dependent on the particular wiki software used on the particular website.
For example, all wikitext markup languages have a simple way of hyperlinking to other pages within the site, but there are several different syntax conventions for these links.
Putting "subst:" after the double opening braces causes an automatic conversion of wikitext when the referring page is saved: the subst tag is replaced by the wikitext of the template, with the parameter values substituted for the parameters.
The wikitext of a page can be looked upon as a list of statements, in which case a template is a statement-type subroutine.
Alternatively the wikitext is a string expression, in which case a template is a string function.
This will bring you to the edit page: a page with a text box containing the wikitext: the editable source code from which the server produces the webpage.
However, the edit link of a diff page gives the current wikitext, even if the diff page shows an old version below the table of differences.
After adding to or changing the wikitext it is useful to press "Show preview", which produces the corresponding webpage in your browser but does not make it publicly available yet (not until you press "Save").
This page is a proof-of-concept demonstrating how Mozile can edit MediaWiki pages and use the client-side html2wiki.xsl stylesheet to translate the resulting HTML into wikitext.
This page was derived from the Help:Editing all-in-one guide page in order to demonstrate a large range of wikitext formatting.
This demonstration relies on some proposed modifications to the output of the MediaWikiwikitext parser, as noted in html2wiki.xsl.
Wiki Help - PIMSWiki(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The right column below shows common Wikitext that can be used, while the left column below shows what the Wikitext looks like after you've saved the page.
You can use the Sandbox to play around with Wikitext formatting, or use your own user page once you've logged in (just click on your name at the top of the page).
You can also determine if a template is being used on a page, by entering the edit page and looking at the bottom (near the minor edit button) - if there is a template being used on the current page it will be displayed there with a link to it.
Users of this module have probably known about the odd integration of the wiki module with Drupal's "filter architecture." That is, WikiText filtering was supported only for certain node types.
As would be expected, the WikiText filtering works for all node content types from book to page to story to comment.
This new wikitext module doesn't interact well yet with the HTML Filter, but I'll let someone else worry about that for now.
drupal.org /node/14375 (1000 words)
Wikiwyg - Turn any HTML div into a wysiwyg and wikitext edit area.(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Wikiwyg - Turn any HTML div into a wysiwyg and wikitext edit area.
He is currently an employee of Socialtext and also the author of the Kwiki wiki software (http://www.kwiki.org).
Chris did all the work that makes the Wikitext mode toolbar so smart and context sensitive.
There are three categories of automatic conversion of wikitext:
As opposed to rendering matters (what webpage results from given wikitext), these conversions are not demonstrated in looking at existing wikitext and webpages: the wikitext only shows the result, not how it was entered.
It also means that when testing these features, one has to remember or record what one has entered.
All semester, my students and I have toiled to get the Free Rhetoric and Composition Wikitext ready for use in composition classes.
This free wikitext shows more potential than a lot of the published textbooks I've seen.
Too many textbooks (and teachers) still present writing as a linear process, as if students could start at the beginning, continue until the end, and then stop.