[Mediawiki-l] Wikitext grammar

[Magnus Manske]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:10 PM, lmhelp2 <lea.massiot at ign.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks to all of you for your answers.
>
> I have decided (in the light of what you told me)
> to read the "Wikitext" line after line.
>
> I must "ignore" leading:
> - templates (including the ones which span
>  over several consecutive lines like "infoboxes"): {{...}},
> - isolated internal links: [[...]].
>
> I return the first line which is not one of the two
> "things" above.
>
> Of course, I hope I am not forgetting any other
> "things" which could appear at the begenning of
> the "Wikitext". I have examined several articles
> at random and I saw nothing else...
> If I am forgetting something please tell me... :)

For starters, {{ can be nested, and do not need to be at the beginning
of a line, but could be anywhere. Same goes for the matching }}. Of
course, {{{ has a different meaning...

Magnus