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paveld/mw-markdown-wiki
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An extension for markdown support in mediawiki pages

v0.3.2(4y ago)041[2 issues](https://github.com/PavelD/mw-markdown-wiki/issues)MITPHP

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MarkdownWiki extension for MediaWiki
====================================

[](#markdownwiki-extension-for-mediawiki)

About
-----

[](#about)

This extension allows usage of [Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) syntax on wiki pages. It's based on extension of the [Cebe](https://github.com/cebe)'s [Markdown](https://github.com/cebe/markdown) library for parsing Mrkdown into WikiText syntax.

### Why new extension

[](#why-new-extension)

I have many markdown files that used to be source for our personal web in the past. But the provider is gone and I had many files on my disk with some not well known dialect of Markdown inside.

There is [Blake](https://github.com/bharley)'s [Markdown](https://github.com/bharley/mw-markdown). It's not working ion the version of MediaWiki I have and fixing it turns into this project. To be more flexible in parsing I swhitched backend library to [Cebe](https://github.com/cebe/markdown)'s [Markdown](https://github.com/cebe/markdown) parser. As well I inject some wiki syntax into the files and change the logic of the parsing.

Now it's possilbe to combine the Markkdown language with wiki syntax.

To simplify the extension I extracted [MarkdownWiki](https://github.com/PavelD/markdown-wiki) parser to separated project.

Instalation
-----------

[](#instalation)

- In `$mw` run `COMPOSER=composer.local.json composer require --no-update paveld/mw-markdown-wiki`, where `$mw` is a path to your MediaWiki installation
- In `$mw` run `composer update paveld/mw-markdown-wiki --no-dev -o`
- Add the following to `$mw/LocalSettings.php`:

```
wfLoadExtension( 'MarkdownWiki' );
```

Set MarkdwonWiki as default paser add to the file as well following code:

```
$wgMarkdownWikiDefaultOn = true;
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

To alow markdown syntax in the article put `{{MARKDOWN}}` tp the begging of the page.

To use Markdown on every page use `$wgMarkdownWikiDefaultOn` in `$mw/LocalSettings.php`

### Custom markdown elements

[](#custom-markdown-elements)

See [README.md](https://github.com/PavelD/markdown-wiki/blob/main/README.md) on the MarkdownWiki project page.

###  Health Score

21

—

LowBetter than 18% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity42

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~5 days

Total

3

Last Release

1610d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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