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A Wikipedia Syntaxer is someone |
A '''Wikipedia Syntaxer''' is someone who uses MediaWiki markup on web sites that don't use MediaWiki software. |
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Like Wikipedia, All The Tropes is powered by MediaWiki. |
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[[TV Tropes (Wiki)|TV Tropes]] uses a wiki engine called [[PmWiki]], and on that engine, words are in [[CamelCase]], though they do have support for Wikipedia Style "free links" (word spaces). |
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This causes users 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]] and Soylent News run SLASH, which uses an HTML subset. |
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* Forums that run Lithium or Vanilla also use HTML subsets. |
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* Plenty of web forums use BBCode, an HTML-like markup with square brackets that originated in UBB and spread to vBulletin and phpBB. |
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* [[Everything 2]] uses bracketed free links, whose syntax inspired the [[pothole]] syntax in MediaWiki, but doesn't support wiki text formatting. |
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* WikiWikiWeb uses wiki text formatting but always uses [[Wiki Word]]s for linking. |
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* [[Reddit]] and [[Stack Overflow]] 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. |
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This trope is a reference to one of the most well known wikis of all time, which we refer to as [[The Other Wiki]]. |
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Subtrope of [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]] |
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Revision as of 21:19, 21 July 2014
A Wikipedia Syntaxer is someone who uses MediaWiki markup on web sites that don't use MediaWiki software.
Like Wikipedia, All The Tropes is powered by MediaWiki. This causes users 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.
- Slashdot and Soylent News run SLASH, which uses an HTML subset.
- Forums that run Lithium or Vanilla also use HTML subsets.
- Plenty of web forums use BBCode, an HTML-like markup with square brackets that originated in UBB and spread to vBulletin and phpBB.
- Everything 2 uses bracketed free links, whose syntax inspired the pothole syntax in MediaWiki, but doesn't support wiki text formatting.
- WikiWikiWeb uses wiki text formatting but always uses Wiki Words for linking.
- Reddit and Stack Overflow use Markdown.
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.
Subtrope of Damn You, Muscle Memory!