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Setup: MEDIAWIKI is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. Goal: an interchangeable ORG. A MEDIAWIKI → ORG conversion gives you the right artefact for the next step in the document life cycle. Maybe you are moving from drafting to distribution, or from a proprietary format into an open one, or simply answering a colleague who asked for ORG. KaijuConverter delivers a faithful re-render without any desktop software install. Worth knowing: MEDIAWIKI is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. Meanwhile ORG is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline.
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.
Org-mode
Target formatOrg-mode is a markup language and organizational system created for GNU Emacs. It combines document authoring with task management, literate programming, and reproducible research in a plain text format with a powerful outlining structure.
Why convert MEDIAWIKI to ORG
Opening MEDIAWIKI in the tool that natively reads ORG is rarely clean. Converting upstream rebuilds the document in the target format so headings become headings, lists stay lists, and the receiving tool does not flag layout warnings.
HOW TO CONVERT
MEDIAWIKI → ORG
Drop the MEDIAWIKI file
Upload your document — or a ZIP of several documents for batch conversion — through the web form.
Convert through pandoc
Our pandoc-based pipeline opens the MEDIAWIKI, preserves structure and typography, and writes the ORG.
Retrieve the document
Click the download button; the ORG is delivered as a single file (or ZIP of files for batch jobs).
Common Use Cases
Share across platforms
Send ORG files to anyone without worrying about whether they have the right software for MEDIAWIKI.
Embed in documents
Drop ORG output into Word, Google Docs, PowerPoint, Notion or a website without conversion warnings.
Optimize size
ORG 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 ORG — 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.
ORG Strengths
- All-in-one productivity format — tasks, notes, agenda, papers.
- Plain UTF-8 text — diff-friendly, version-controllable.
- Literate programming with tangle/weave.
- Exports to HTML, PDF, LaTeX, ODT, Markdown, Beamer.
- Active open-source community with decades of extensions.
Limitations
- Emacs-centric — full power requires Emacs; other editors see syntax but miss features.
- Steep learning curve alongside Emacs itself.
- Limited mobile support (Orgzly on Android is the main option).
MEDIAWIKI vs ORG — 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
ORG
- MIME type
- text/org
- Encoding
- UTF-8
- Extension
- .org
- Native environment
- GNU Emacs Org-mode
- Creator
- Carsten Dominik (2003)
| Specification | MEDIAWIKI | ORG |
|---|---|---|
| MIME type | text/x-wiki | text/org |
| Extensions | .mediawiki, .wiki | — |
| Parser | MediaWiki core + Parsoid (HTML) | — |
| Encoding | UTF-8 | UTF-8 |
| Canonical user | Wikipedia + Wikimedia sister projects | — |
| Extension | — | .org |
| Native environment | — | GNU Emacs Org-mode |
| Creator | — | Carsten Dominik (2003) |
MEDIAWIKI vs ORG — Typical file sizes
Approximate file sizes for common scenarios.
MEDIAWIKI
- Short Wikipedia article source 5-30 KB
- Long Wikipedia article with templates 50-300 KB
- Full Wikipedia XML dump ~20 GB compressed
ORG
- Daily notes file 2-50 KB
- Research project aggregate 100 KB - 2 MB
- Literate-programming document with output 500 KB - 10 MB
Quality & Compatibility
Headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, hyperlinks and inline images all survive the conversion with their semantic structure intact. Rare features unique to MEDIAWIKI — legacy macros, form fields, obscure frame styles — are flattened to static content where no direct ORG equivalent exists. Tracked changes, where both formats support them, transfer cleanly.
Tips for Best Results
- Round-tripping between MEDIAWIKI and ORG (converting back and forth) can accumulate small formatting drift — do one conversion and stay in that format.
- If the MEDIAWIKI has tracked changes, accept or reject them before converting to avoid surprises in the ORG output.
- Very long documents split cleanly at existing section breaks; add section breaks deliberately if you need precise page boundaries.
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 ORG at full resolution, editable tables become native ORG tables, and hyperlinks keep their URLs. Complex features unique to MEDIAWIKI — macros, form fields, track-changes — are mapped where an equivalent exists in ORG and flattened into static content otherwise.
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