When converting Markdown -> Mediawiki, an escaped asterisk is not escaped in Mediawiki output, causing it to be interpreted as a formatting character in some cases, such as when starting on a line.
I don't know whether it's a problem on Markdown input or Mediawiki output side.
This is a normal sentence with a manual text footnote\*
\* The footnote explains why it couldn't just be inside parentheses
And the text continues. Although the "proper" footnote in Markdown has a different syntax.[^1]
[^1]: There's a reason I can never remember what all these different characters stand for.
End of text.
Output:
This is a normal sentence with a manual text footnote*
* The footnote explains why it couldn’t just be inside parentheses
And the text continues. Although the “proper” footnote in Markdown has a different syntax.<ref>There’s a reason I can never remember what all these different characters stand for.</ref>
End of text.
<references />
Will be displayed on MediaWiki as (it's not supposed to start a list!):
This is a normal sentence with a manual text footnote*
The footnote explains why it couldn’t just be inside parentheses
And the text continues. Although the “proper” footnote in Markdown has a different syntax.[1]
End of text.
[1]: There’s a reason I can never remember what all these different characters stand for.
I suppose it should've been enclosed in <nowiki> or something?
It's an issue on the mediawiki writer side. The markdown reader correctly interprets * as a plain string, but the writer needs to add escaping in cases where something might be interpreted as a list.
Explain the problem.
When converting Markdown -> Mediawiki, an escaped asterisk is not escaped in Mediawiki output, causing it to be interpreted as a formatting character in some cases, such as when starting on a line.
I don't know whether it's a problem on Markdown input or Mediawiki output side.
Online pandoc link
Command:
pandoc -f markdown -t mediawiki markdown-to-mediawiki-asterisk-bug.md -o -
Input (markdown-to-mediawiki-asterisk-bug.md):
Output:
Will be displayed on MediaWiki as (it's not supposed to start a list!):
This is a normal sentence with a manual text footnote*
And the text continues. Although the “proper” footnote in Markdown has a different syntax.[1]
End of text.
[1]: There’s a reason I can never remember what all these different characters stand for.
I suppose it should've been enclosed in
<nowiki>
or something?Pandoc version?
pandoc 3.1.8 Features: +server +lua Scripting engine: Lua 5.4