History: GSOC 2009: Comparative table between MediaWiki and TikiWiki syntax

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This page list all the MediaWiki syntax described at [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec] and the correspondent TikiWiki syntax (if any). Each syntax is marked as "straight foward", "trick", "not supported" meaning how easy it will be to support then with the MediaWiki to TikiWiki importer.

WikiMatrix also has a interesting comparative table in the bottom of this [http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/MediaWiki+TikiWiki-CMS-Groupware|page].

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!Unary
!!Start of the line only
{FANCYTABLE(head="__MediaWiki syntax__~|~__Explanation__~|~__TikiWiki syntax__~|~__Comments__~|~__Supported by the importer__")}
~np~----~/np~~|~Horizontal line (4 or more hyphens)~|~~np~---~/np~~|~~|~yes
(space)~|~Pre-formatted text~|~ (?) ~|~ Need to check if there is a Tiki equivalent syntax ~|~
*~|~Bulleted list~|~*~|~~|~yes
#~|~Numbered list~|~#~|~~|~yes
:~|~Indent with no marking~|~ (?) ~|~ Need to check if there is a Tiki equivalent syntax ~|~
;Term: definition~|~Definition list~|~ ~np~{DL()}One entry per line. Each line is in "Term: Definition" format.{DL}~/np~ ~|~~|~ yes
{| ... |}~|~Table formating~|~~np~|| ... ||~/np~~|~See [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Table]~|~tricky
#redirect or #REDIRECT (followed by wikilink)~|~Redirects wiki page~|~~np~{REDIRECT(page="pageName")}{REDIRECT}~/np~~|~~|~yes
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!!Can be used anywhere
{FANCYTABLE(head="__MediaWiki syntax__ ~|~ __Explanation__ ~|~ __TikiWiki syntax__ ~|~ __Comments__ ~|~ __Supported by the importer__")}
(magic words) ~|~ See [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words|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. ~|~ ~|~ ~|~ yes
(magic links) ~|~ See [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec/BNF/Magic_links|magic links] ~|~ ~|~ ~|~ __not supported__
(templates) ~|~ See [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates] ~|~ ~|~ There is a similar feature in Tiki? ~|~ __not supported__
{FANCYTABLE}

!Binary
The ellipses (...) are used to indicate where the content goes and are not part of the markup.
!!Start of the line only
{FANCYTABLE(head="__MediaWiki syntax__ ~|~ __Explanation__ ~|~ __TikiWiki syntax__ ~|~ __Comments__ ~|~ __Supported by the importer__")}
~np~= ... =~/np~ ~|~ heading ~|~ ! ~|~ ~|~ yes
~np~== ... ==~/np~ ~|~ heading ~|~ !! ~|~ ~|~ yes
~np~=== ... ===~/np~ ~|~ heading ~|~ !!! ~|~ ~|~ yes
~np~==== ... ====~/np~ ~|~ heading ~|~ !!!! ~|~ ~|~ yes
~np~===== ... =====~/np~ ~|~ heading ~|~ !!!!! ~|~ ~|~ yes
~np~====== ... ======~/np~ ~|~ heading ~|~ !!!!!! ~|~ ~|~ yes
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!!Can be used anywhere
{FANCYTABLE(head="__MediaWiki syntax__ ~|~ __Explanation__ ~|~ __TikiWiki syntax__ ~|~ __Comments__ ~|~ __Supported by the importer__")}
~np~[... ...]~/np~ ~|~ External link (space separates optional first parameter, which is display text) ~|~ ~np~[...|...]~/np~ ~|~ ~|~ yes
~np~[[...|...]]~/np~ ~|~ Internal wiki link (vertical bars separates optional first parameter, which is display text) ~|~ ~np~((...|...))~/np~ ~|~ ~|~ yes
~np~[[Image:...|...]]~/np~ ~|~ Image (vertical bars separates optional parameters). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax|extended image syntax] ~|~ ~np~{img src=""}~/np~ ~|~ The extra optional parameters might be a problem ~|~ tricky
~np~[[category:...|...]]~/np~ ~|~ Category (first parameter: sort order in category list). ~|~ (Tiki categories) ~|~  ~|~ tricky
~np~'' ... ''~/np~ ~|~ Italic ~|~ ~np~'' ... ''~/np~ ~|~  ~|~ yes
~np~''' ... '''~/np~ ~|~ Bold ~|~ ~np~__ ... __~/np~ ~|~  ~|~ yes
~np~''''' ... '''''~/np~ ~|~ Bold + Italic ~|~ ~np~''__ ... __''~/np~ ~|~  ~|~ yes
~np~'''bold ''italic and bold'' and bold again'''~/np~ ~|~ Bold and italic combined ~|~ ~np~''__ ... ''...'' ... __''~/np~ ~|~ Need to fix Text_Wiki Mediawiki parser to suport this (see [http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16455|bug report]) ~|~ tricky
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NOTE: ~np~[[Image: ...]]~/np~ and ~np~[[category: ...]]~/np~ are localized. For exemple, in a portuguese installation of MediaWiki we have ~np~[[Imagem: ...]]~/np~ and ~np~[[Categoria: ...]]~/np~.

!!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?).

{FANCYTABLE(head="__MediaWiki syntax__ ~|~ __Explanation__ ~|~ __TikiWiki syntax__ ~|~ __Comments__ ~|~ __Supported by the importer__)}
nowiki ~|~ Do not interpret wiki markup ~|~ ~np~~np~ ... ~/np~~/np~ ~|~ ~|~ yes
pre ~|~ Do not interpret wiki markup, do not flow text ~|~ ~np~~pp~ ... ~/pp~~/np~ ~|~ ~|~ yes
math ~|~ if $wgUseTeX is set ~|~  ~|~  ~|~ 
html ~|~ if $wgRawHtml is set ~|~  ~|~  ~|~ 
gallery ~|~ See [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images#Gallery_of_images] ~|~  ~|~  ~|~ __not supported__
onlyinclude, noinclude, includeonly ~|~ ??? ~|~  ~|~  ~|~ 
ref ~|~ ??? ~|~  ~|~  ~|~ 
(HTML-style comments) ~|~  ~|~  ~|~  ~|~ 
{FANCYTABLE}

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