[wp-forums] self-linking rules?

[Mika A Epstein]

Much standard HTML actually works on mediawiki. Italics, bold, tables, blockquote and the little things do work. Links do not. I can't remember, off the top of my head, if lists do, but I think not.

On Sep 1, 2010, at 2:40 AM, Rich Pedley <elfin at elfden.co.uk> wrote:

> On 01/09/2010 07:57, Mr mist wrote:
>> In message<4C7DBDC2.1040506 at edwards.org>, Mark E<mark at edwards.org>
>> writes
>>> So they write the text and pass it off to people willing to endure the
>>> markup.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> And even that is reasonable.  If someone dumps a page of text in the
>> Codex, then it's better than nothing.  Plus then folk like me can just
>> go in and tidy up the text.
> 
> But would increase the workload of the few that do manage it. It would also greatly increase the chance of errors. Additionally it would be unlikely that anyone would upload any associated images etc.
> 
> I hate Wiki markup syntax.
> 
> Query though, if someone created a page using standard HTML would it work? Could that be done then marked in need of wiki'fying?
> 
> Rich
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