README

About

This extension allows usage of Markdown syntax on wiki pages. It's based on extension of the Cebe's Markdown library for parsing Mrkdown into WikiText syntax.

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's 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's 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 parser to separated project.

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

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

See README.md on the MarkdownWiki project page.