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(wikiwikiweb is dead, and fedwiki is for the rich) |
(C&H uses Markdown too) |
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Like Wikipedia, All The Tropes is powered by MediaWiki. |
Like Wikipedia, All The Tropes is powered by MediaWiki. |
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This causes |
This causes editors of Wikipedia and All The Tropes to pick up certain habits and end up making a fool of themselves when they try contributing to sites that use other software. |
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* [[Slashdot]] runs Slash, and SoylentNews runs Rehash, a community fork of the last public version of Slash. Both use an HTML subset. |
* [[Slashdot]] runs Slash, and SoylentNews runs Rehash, a community fork of the last public version of Slash. Both use an HTML subset. |
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* Forums that run Lithium or Vanilla also use HTML subsets. |
* Forums that run Lithium or Vanilla also use HTML subsets. |
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* [[Everything 2]] uses an HTML subset combined with bracketed free links, whose syntax inspired the [[pothole]] syntax in MediaWiki, but doesn't support wiki text formatting. |
* [[Everything 2]] uses an HTML subset combined with bracketed free links, whose syntax inspired the [[pothole]] syntax in MediaWiki, but doesn't support wiki text formatting. |
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* WikiWikiWeb, when it was in operation, used wiki text formatting but always used [[Wiki Word]]s for linking. (Smallest Federated Wiki, its successor, uses a visual editor.) |
* WikiWikiWeb, when it was in operation, used wiki text formatting but always used [[Wiki Word]]s for linking. (Smallest Federated Wiki, its successor, uses a visual editor.) |
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* [[Reddit]] and [[ |
* [[Reddit]], Stack Overflow, GitHub, and the comment section of ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' use Markdown. |
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One inversion is a '''TV Tropes Syntaxer''', is someone who tries using PmWiki syntax (WikiWords, curly-bracket free links, potholes with no pipe, square-bracket templates, etc.) on a wiki running MediaWiki. |
One inversion is a '''TV Tropes Syntaxer''', is someone who tries using PmWiki syntax (WikiWords, curly-bracket free links, potholes with no pipe, square-bracket templates, etc.) on a wiki running MediaWiki. |