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MEDIAWIKI → T2T
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Fast, secure MEDIAWIKI to T2T conversion. No registration required.
Setup: MEDIAWIKI is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. Goal: an interchangeable T2T. Move a document from MEDIAWIKI into T2T while keeping structure and formatting intact. T2T is usually the better target when you need to email, sign, archive or hand the file to a tool that does not natively parse MEDIAWIKI. Conversion happens server-side in seconds and both files delete automatically. One more beat. MEDIAWIKI is a document format oriented around a particular office suite or publishing pipeline. Receiving format: T2T 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.
txt2tags
Target formattxt2tags is a minimal markup language that can be converted to many output formats including HTML, LaTeX, DocBook, and plain text. Its syntax is intentionally simple, using only ASCII characters for all formatting directives.
Why convert MEDIAWIKI to T2T
The driver for a MEDIAWIKI to T2T conversion is almost always the downstream audience: the editor, archivist, signer or reader who expects a T2T. Doing the conversion in a proper rendering pipeline, rather than hoping the receiving tool will figure it out, avoids layout drift and font substitutions.
HOW TO CONVERT
MEDIAWIKI → T2T
Provide the document
Select a MEDIAWIKI file. Very large documents (100+ pages) may take a few extra seconds to render completely.
Render to T2T
LibreOffice plus supporting filters translate the MEDIAWIKI into a fully-formed T2T with no structural drift.
Save the result
The converted T2T streams back over HTTPS; open in the target application to verify formatting.
Common Use Cases
Print shop delivery
Print houses accept T2T as a first-class submission format and reliably preserve pagination; MEDIAWIKI may reflow at the printer.
Archival preservation
T2T/A and related PDF archive standards are accepted by national libraries and long-term record keepers worldwide.
Multi-device reading
T2T renders identically on phones, tablets and desktops; MEDIAWIKI layout can shift based on the reader application.
Presentation handouts
Speakers distribute slide notes and references as T2T so attendees can view them without the source application.
MEDIAWIKI vs T2T — 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.
T2T Strengths
- Plain-text source → multi-format output.
- Simple syntax.
- Tiny implementation.
Limitations
- Superseded by Pandoc.
- Tiny ecosystem.
- Limited modern tooling.
MEDIAWIKI vs T2T — 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
T2T
- MIME type
- text/x-txt2tags
- Extension
- .t2t
- Targets
- 15+ formats including HTML, LaTeX, man, Wiki
| Specification | MEDIAWIKI | T2T |
|---|---|---|
| MIME type | text/x-wiki | text/x-txt2tags |
| Extensions | .mediawiki, .wiki | — |
| Parser | MediaWiki core + Parsoid (HTML) | — |
| Encoding | UTF-8 | — |
| Canonical user | Wikipedia + Wikimedia sister projects | — |
| Extension | — | .t2t |
| Targets | — | 15+ formats including HTML, LaTeX, man, Wiki |
MEDIAWIKI vs T2T — 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
T2T
- Short article source 2-20 KB
Quality & Compatibility
The conversion preserves document structure rather than pixel-perfect rendering: a paragraph in MEDIAWIKI is a paragraph in T2T, not a bitmap snapshot. That means you can still edit and search the T2T. If you need exact visual fidelity (for legal or print workflows), export to PDF as the final step.
Tips for Best Results
- Run a spell-check in the T2T after conversion — occasionally hyphenation or language tagging shifts and typos become invisible to the original checker.
- Include fallback generic fonts (sans-serif, serif) in your style definitions so the T2T degrades gracefully when a font is missing on a viewer device.
- For archive-quality output, export to PDF/A after converting to T2T; this locks the document against future rendering drift.
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 T2T at full resolution, editable tables become native T2T tables, and hyperlinks keep their URLs. Complex features unique to MEDIAWIKI — macros, form fields, track-changes — are mapped where an equivalent exists in T2T and flattened into static content otherwise.
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