Wikitext
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Wikitext or wiki markup is a markup language that offers a simplified alternative to HTML and is used to write pages in wikis and is intended to make markup for the web easier.
There is no commonly accepted standard wikitext language. 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 hyperlinkging to other pages within the site, but there are several different syntax conventions for these links. On this server, which uses the Mediawiki wiki software, automatically converts full web URLs into hyperlinks (ie. http://www.brocku.ca) and links to internal articles (by surrounding he text with [[ ]]).
Some wiki programs allow extensive optional use of HTML tags within wikitext, others a smaller subset, and still others no HTML at all. Other wiki programs allow the restrictions on HTML to be set by the particular site. Mediawiki allows a small subset. Mediawiki wikitext allows you to freely mix wiki format and HTML, but it provides a simple, readable syntax that allows users to not even know HTML.
More information on the specific mark-up for wikis on this server can be found in the Help:Formatting article.
[edit] Converting to Wikitext
A simple tool to convert HTML to Mediawiki wikitext can be found at http://www.katrinahelp.info/rdata/people/convertHtmlToWiki. and a more advanced version at http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki
OpenOffice, version 3 and later can save Word documents, and many other files including HTML files, directly to Mediawiki wikitext format. OpenOffice is a free and open-source and can be obtained from http://www.openoffice.org
