# Ever thought about switching from Markdown to Mediawiki syntax?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ever-thought-about-switching-from-markdown-to-mediawiki-syntax/133200
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 12, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ever-thought-about-switching-from-markdown-to-mediawiki-syntax/133200 "2019-11-12T15:08:47Z")
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### Author: ![orchardstreet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/orchardstreet/32/149531_2.png) [@orchardstreet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/orchardstreet)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2019, 3:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ever-thought-about-switching-from-markdown-to-mediawiki-syntax/133200/1 "2019-11-12T15:08:47Z")

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Mediawiki syntax is incredibly easy to use and kind of genius. It would also work well with wiki posts. It also seems to be more familiar to non-developers than Markdown but I could be very wrong.

Examples:

==header==  
===subheader===  
====sub-subheader====

\*bullet point without needing space

‘’‘bold’‘’

‘‘italics’’

[[File:easyfilereferencing.png]]

[[File:easyfileformatting.png|300x300px|right|caption]]

> **[Help:Formatting - MediaWiki](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting)**

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ever-thought-about-switching-from-markdown-to-mediawiki-syntax/133200/2 "2019-11-12T15:16:07Z")

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Discourse is heavily invested in Markdown, as @codinghorror even went to co-build [https://commonmark.org/](https://commonmark.org/) to develop a markdown standard.

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### Author: ![orchardstreet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/orchardstreet/32/149531_2.png) [@orchardstreet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/orchardstreet)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2019, 3:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ever-thought-about-switching-from-markdown-to-mediawiki-syntax/133200/3 "2019-11-12T15:17:33Z")

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ah ok. np ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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### Author: ![orchardstreet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/orchardstreet/32/149531_2.png) [@orchardstreet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/orchardstreet)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2019, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ever-thought-about-switching-from-markdown-to-mediawiki-syntax/133200/4 "2019-11-12T15:21:39Z")

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I wonder if it would even be legal to sell something with mediawiki syntax, I assume so though

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### Author: ![roke\_julian\_lockhart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/roke_julian_lockhart/32/540179_2.png) [@roke\_julian\_lockhart](https://meta.discourse.org/u/roke_julian_lockhart)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2026, 4:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ever-thought-about-switching-from-markdown-to-mediawiki-syntax/133200/5 "2026-03-01T16:42:35Z")

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> [@orchardstreet](#):
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> I wonder if it would even be legal to sell something with mediawiki syntax

@orchardstreet, it would be. MediaWiki is FOSS, and no entity has patented any markup syntax.