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Markdown to MediaWiki Converter

Convert Markdown to MediaWiki wiki markup for Wikipedia, Fandom, and self-hosted wikis. Two-way conversion, runs in your browser, no signup.

Direction

Rewrite CommonMark or GitHub-Flavored Markdown into MediaWiki wiki markup for Wikipedia, Fandom, or any MediaWiki-powered wiki.

Load sample

Headings become = h = through ====== h ======, **bold** becomes '''bold''', [label](url) becomes [url label], internal links use double brackets, GFM tables become {| wikitable |} blocks, and fenced code blocks become <syntaxhighlight lang=...> blocks.

Markdown909 chars / 911 bytes

MediaWiki markup

= Quantum entanglement =


Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon described by [[Erwin_Schrödinger|Erwin Schrödinger]] in 1935. Two or more particles can have correlated properties even when separated by large distances.

== History ==


The phenomenon was first noted in a [https://example.org/epr paper] by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen.

== Properties ==


* Particles share a single quantum state
* Measurement on one instantaneously affects the other
* Cannot be used for ''faster-than-light'' communication

== See also ==


# [[Bell's_theorem|Bell's theorem]]
# [[Quantum_decoherence|Quantum decoherence]]
# [[Quantum_nonlocality|Quantum nonlocality]]

== References ==


<syntaxhighlight lang="python">
def measure(state):
    return state.collapse()
</syntaxhighlight>


{| class="wikitable"
! Property !! Classical !! Quantum
|-
| Locality || Yes || No
|-
| Determinism || Yes || Probabilistic
|-
| Hidden variables || Allowed || Restricted
|}

MediaWiki markup characters960

MediaWiki markup bytes (UTF-8)962

Syntax mapping

Every construct, side by side.

Construct	Markdown	MediaWiki
Bold	bold	'''bold'''
Italic	italic or _italic_	''italic''
Bold + italic	*both*	'''''both'''''
Strike	~~strike~~	<s>strike</s>
Inline code	`code`	<code>code</code>
Code block	```py ... ```	<syntaxhighlight lang="py"> ... </syntaxhighlight>
Heading H1	# Heading	= Heading =
Heading H6	###### Heading	====== Heading ======
External link	[label](url)	[url label]
Bare URL	https://x.test	https://x.test
Internal link	[label](wiki:Page)	[[Page\|label]]
Image	![alt](File:X.jpg)	[[File:X.jpg\|alt]]
Quote	> line	<blockquote>line</blockquote>
Bullet	- item	* item
Nested bullet	- nested	** nested
Numbered	1. item	# item
Nested numbered	1. nested	## nested
HR	---	----
Table	\| a \| b \|	{\| class="wikitable" ! a !! b \|}

MediaWiki quirks worth knowing

Things to remember when you paste into Wikipedia, Fandom, or a self-hosted MediaWiki.

Bold uses three apostrophes. Pasting **bold** from GitHub leaves the asterisks as literal text on a MediaWiki page. The converter rewrites both ** and __ to '''.
Bold + italic is five apostrophes. ''''' opens and closes a span that renders as both bold and italic at once. Six apostrophes does not work.
Internal vs external links. A target like wiki:Page or a bare page name becomes [[Page]]. A scheme like https:// becomes [url label]with a space separating URL and label. Mixing the two breaks rendering.
Images live in the File: namespace. Wikipedia renders an image only when the link starts with File:, Image:, or Media:. Bare external image URLs do not become inline images; they degrade to a numbered footnote link.
Tables use the {| block. Cells separated by || run inline on one line; each new row starts with |-. The class="wikitable" attribute on the opening line is the de-facto default that gives borders and header styling.
Code blocks use SyntaxHighlight.The extension ships with most MediaWiki installs; the <syntaxhighlight lang="..."> tag is the modern way to render syntax-highlighted code. A bare leading-space block is the legacy preformatted style.
Headings start AND end with equal signs. The opening and closing equal sign count must match. = Foo = is H1; ====== Foo ====== is H6.
Horizontal rules are four hyphens. Three hyphens render as literal text in MediaWiki.
Templates and references pass through. The converter leaves {{Template}}and <ref>...</ref> tags untouched in either direction so nothing is lost.

Tips for editors

Drafting a Wikipedia article

Write the article in your preferred Markdown editor, paste it here, and copy the MediaWiki output straight into the Wikipedia edit window. Add {{Infobox}}, references, and categories on the wiki side; the converter leaves them in place on the next round trip.

Migrating a wiki to a static site

Switch to MediaWiki to Markdown. Paste the wiki source from Special:Export or the API, copy the Markdown output, and drop it into Hugo, MkDocs, Docusaurus, or any static-site generator.

Fandom and gaming wikis

Fandom (the former Wikia network) uses MediaWiki under the hood, so this converter works for any Fandom or Wikia wiki edit page. Game guides, lore pages, and infoboxes all map the same way.

Privacy

Both directions run entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to a server, so drafts and unpublished article text never leave your device.

How to use

Pick the direction: Markdown to MediaWiki to draft for a wiki, or MediaWiki to Markdown to migrate a wiki article into a Markdown document.
Paste your source into the input panel on the left, or click a sample to load a worked example (article skeleton, release notes, or an image-and-table layout).
Read the converted output on the right. Counts of characters and UTF-8 bytes appear under each panel so you can confirm the size is reasonable for the destination wiki or markdown file.
Use Swap output into input to feed the result back as a new source. Round-tripping is lossless for the common constructs and a quick way to inspect the canonical form of either side.
Click Copy MediaWiki markup or Copy Markdown to copy the result, then paste it straight into the Wikipedia edit window, a Fandom article, a self-hosted MediaWiki page, a README, a GitHub issue, or a static-site source file.

About this tool

Markdown to MediaWiki Converter rewrites a Markdown document into the wiki markup that Wikipedia, Fandom, Wikimedia Commons, and every MediaWiki-powered wiki accept, and rewrites MediaWiki source back into clean CommonMark Markdown. Both directions run entirely in your browser. The Markdown side recognises CommonMark and GitHub-Flavored Markdown: ATX and Setext headings, bold and italic with either asterisks or underscores, bold-italic, strikethrough, inline code, fenced code blocks with a language hint, blockquotes, ordered and unordered lists (with nesting), tables with header and body rows, horizontal rules, autolinks, reference-style links, and images. The output side maps each construct to its MediaWiki equivalent: equals-sign headings, triple-apostrophe bold, double-apostrophe italic, five-apostrophe bold-italic, single-bracket external links with a space separating URL and label, double-bracket internal links for wiki page references, File: image syntax for images, {| class="wikitable" tables with || cell separators, <syntaxhighlight lang=...> code blocks for the SyntaxHighlight extension that ships with most MediaWiki installs, and four-hyphen horizontal rules. Internal links are detected when the Markdown target is a bare page name or starts with the wiki: prefix; everything else stays an external link. Templates, references, magic words, and any other MediaWiki-specific construct without a Markdown equivalent pass through unchanged in either direction, so a round trip never silently drops content. The reverse direction parses MediaWiki tables (including header rows declared with !, attribute prefixes inside cells, and multi-line cells), unwraps SyntaxHighlight blocks back into fenced code blocks with the same language, restores Markdown emphasis from apostrophe runs, and normalises HTML blockquote, code, and strikethrough tags into their Markdown counterparts. Useful for editors moving a draft from a markdown editor into a Wikipedia or Fandom edit window, for technical writers migrating MediaWiki documentation to a static site (Hugo, MkDocs, Docusaurus, Astro), for game wiki contributors who keep notes in Obsidian or VS Code, and for anyone tired of manually translating apostrophes and brackets between two markup dialects. Sample documents cover an article skeleton, a release-notes page, and an image-and-table layout so you can sanity check the conversion before pasting into a live wiki.

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