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MediaWiki
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OEIS Wiki uses the MediaWiki server.
- Site name
- {{SITENAME}} = OeisWiki
- MediaWiki version
- {{CURRENTVERSION}} = 1.30.0[1]
Contents
Future
Output as HTML5 doctype
Note: The current version of MediaWiki used by OEIS Wiki does not support output as HTML5 doctype.
The use of HTML5 by MediaWiki is controlled by $wgHtml5 (introduced in version: 1.16.0 (r53034)). This is set to true (output normal wiki pages as HTML5) by default.
Output as XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype
If $wgWellFormedXml is true, the markup will be constructed so it can still be processed as XML. (See XHTML5 and Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents.)
In version 1.16.0, this implies the doctype is changed to XHTML 1.0 Strict to make named character references work in XML.
Named character references
Note: From version 1.17, named character references are avoided.[2]
Polyglot markup uses only the following five predefined named entity references of XML 1.0:
- &
- <
- >
- '
- "
The HTML that MediaWiki outputs is in general valid XML. Rather than be dependent on external DTDs to define HTML named entities such as — and (which would complicate using the simple HTML5 <!DOCTYPE html>), MediaWiki PHP code does not use named entities apart from four of the five predefined named entity references in basic XML:
- < <
- > >
- & &
- " "
When necessary to encode apostrophe ' , MediaWiki code follows the advice at List of XML and HTML character entity references#Entities representing special characters in XHTML and uses the numeric reference ' (or ' in hexadecimal), because the named entity ' was never defined in legacy HTML.
Instead of using named entities in MediaWiki code, you should:
- simply use the UTF-8 (or UTF-16, but NOT UTF-32) character directly (by copying and pasting the glyph, or using the editor's "Special characters" menu);
- or use a numeric character reference;
- particularly for the non-breaking space you can use   (or   in hexadecimal), although using runs of non-breaking spaces for layout is usually a mistake.
See the "Named entity references and XML well-formedness" discussion on wikitech-l.
Semantic MediaWiki
- Main article page: Semantic MediaWiki
In order to allow the use of microdata attributes in Wikitext, set $wgAllowMicrodataAttributes to true.
See also
- Help
- Help:Contents
- Help:Editing
- Help:Namespace prefixes
- {{Namespace ID}} ({{ns ID}}) OEIS Wiki utility template
- {{Allpages}} OEIS Wiki utility template
- MediaWiki namespace (all pages)
- Help:Interwiki linking
- {{MediaWiki}} interwiki link template
- Help:Variables
- {{Wikivar}} OEIS Wiki variables template
- Help:Templates
- Help:Number formatting
- Help:Calculation
- Help:Displaying a formula
Notes
- ↑ MediaWiki 1.21.1 is the latest (as of 2013-05-29) release version.
- ↑ HTML5#Avoid HTML named entities—MediaWiki.org.
