CONVERT MEDIAWIKI → MD (MEDIAWIKI to MD)
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Ghostscript + QPDFHOW TO CONVERT MEDIAWIKI → MD
Upload your MEDIAWIKI
Drop the document onto the uploader. We transfer over HTTPS and keep the file in an isolated processing container.
Render with LibreOffice
LibreOffice opens the MEDIAWIKI headlessly and writes it as MD with styles, tables and images mapped across.
Download the MD
The MD is ready to download; typography, pagination and embedded assets match what you saw in the source.
Setup: MEDIAWIKI is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. Goal: an interchangeable MD. Converting MEDIAWIKI to MD keeps the document's content but changes how it is distributed. MediaWiki Markup may be the right editing format; Markdown may be the right delivery format (or vice-versa). KaijuConverter renders the document through a LibreOffice + pandoc pipeline so headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, images and hyperlinks survive the round-trip intact. Context: MEDIAWIKI is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. MD is Markdown, a plain-text format with minimal syntax that renders to formatted HTML.
Why convert MEDIAWIKI to MD
MEDIAWIKI and MD both describe paginated text, but they target different parts of the document life cycle. MEDIAWIKI is usually editable; MD is usually final. Converting is about moving from editing to distribution (or the other way round) without losing headings, styles, tables or embedded images along the way.
MEDIAWIKI vs MD — Technical specifications
Side-by-side comparison of the technical details.
MEDIAWIKI
- MIME type
- text/x-wiki
- Extensions
- .mediawiki, .wiki
- Parser
- MediaWiki core + Parsoid (HTML)
- Encoding
- UTF-8
- Canonical user
- Wikipedia + Wikimedia sister projects
- MIME Type
- text/x-mediawiki
- Extension
- .mediawiki
- Category
- Documents & Text
- Full Name
- MediaWiki Markup
- Conversion Engine
- PANDOC
MD
- MIME type
- text/markdown
- Extensions
- .md, .markdown, .mdown, .mkd
- Encoding
- UTF-8 (conventional)
- MIME Type
- text/markdown
- Extension
- .md
- Category
- Documents & Text
- Full Name
- Markdown
- Conversion Engine
- PANDOC
- Standard
- CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM)
- Companion spec
- RFC 7763 (2016)
| Specification | MEDIAWIKI | MD |
|---|---|---|
| MIME type | text/x-wiki | text/markdown |
| Extensions | .mediawiki, .wiki | .md, .markdown, .mdown, .mkd |
| Parser | MediaWiki core + Parsoid (HTML) | — |
| Encoding | UTF-8 | UTF-8 (conventional) |
| Canonical user | Wikipedia + Wikimedia sister projects | — |
| MIME Type | text/x-mediawiki | text/markdown |
| Extension | .mediawiki | .md |
| Category | Documents & Text | Documents & Text |
| Full Name | MediaWiki Markup | Markdown |
| Conversion Engine | PANDOC | PANDOC |
| Standard | — | CommonMark, GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) |
| Companion spec | — | RFC 7763 (2016) |
MEDIAWIKI vs MD — Strengths and limitations
What each format does best, and where it falls short.
MEDIAWIKI Strengths
- Powers Wikipedia — battle-tested at planet scale.
- Templates enable reusable content blocks.
- Internal links, categories, and interwiki references work out of the box.
- Huge existing tooling and translation ecosystem.
Limitations
- Parsing is notoriously hard — context-sensitive by design.
- Authoring requires learning the unique syntax.
- Lacks standardization — no formal spec, just the MediaWiki implementation.
MD Strengths
- Readable as plain text even before rendering — fits in version control beautifully.
- Dead-simple: 90% of needs covered in 10 minutes of learning.
- Converts trivially to HTML, PDF, EPUB, and DOCX via Pandoc.
- Every modern IDE, note-taking app, and developer tool renders it natively.
- Lightweight — a typical Markdown file is kilobytes, not megabytes.
Limitations
- No formal authoritative spec — CommonMark, GFM, and MultiMarkdown differ on edge cases.
- Tables and complex layouts are clunky; footnotes and math require extensions.
- Links to images stay external — no embedded media unless you base64-inline.
Quality & Compatibility
LibreOffice handles the heavy lifting and maps the overwhelming majority of MEDIAWIKI features to their MD equivalents. Standard system fonts (Arial, Calibri, Times, Helvetica) transfer exactly; corporate or custom fonts are substituted with the closest available match, which can shift line breaks by a character or two. Inline images embed at original resolution.
Tips for Best Results
- Embed fonts in the MEDIAWIKI before uploading if you use non-system fonts — it guarantees the MD renders identically on any viewer.
- Check tables, figure captions and page headers after conversion; complex layouts occasionally need a minor nudge in the target application.
- For documents with a table of contents, refresh the TOC field after opening the MD so page numbers reflect the new pagination.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, as long as the fonts are standard (system fonts or common office fonts like Arial, Calibri, Times, Helvetica). Custom corporate fonts survive if they are embedded in the source document; otherwise the conversion substitutes the closest available match, which can shift line breaks by a character or two.
Yes. Inline images are embedded into the MD at full resolution, editable tables become native MD tables, and hyperlinks keep their URLs. Complex features unique to MEDIAWIKI — macros, form fields, track-changes — are mapped where an equivalent exists in MD and flattened into static content otherwise.
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MediaWiki Markup
Source formatMediaWiki markup is the wikitext syntax used by Wikipedia and thousands of MediaWiki-powered wikis. It provides formatting for links, tables, templates, categories, and references, powering one of the largest collaborative content systems.
Markdown
Target formatMarkdown is a lightweight markup language that uses plain text formatting syntax. It is widely used in software development, technical documentation, and content management systems.
Going the other way? Convert MD back to MEDIAWIKI with the same engine.
Common Use Cases
Share across platforms
Send MD files to anyone without worrying about whether they have the right software for MEDIAWIKI.
Embed in documents
Drop MD output into Word, Google Docs, PowerPoint, Notion or a website without conversion warnings.
Optimize size
MD often produces smaller files than MEDIAWIKI for web, email and storage.
Archive & future-proof
Store in a widely-supported format that will still open on future operating systems without legacy plugins.
MEDIAWIKI vs MD — Typical file sizes
Approximate file sizes for common scenarios.
- Short Wikipedia article source 5-30 KB
- Long Wikipedia article with templates 50-300 KB
- Full Wikipedia XML dump ~20 GB compressed
- README 1-15 KB
- Blog post 2-30 KB
- Full technical manual 50 KB - 2 MB
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