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wikitext en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈwɪ.kiˌtɛkst/ (UK, US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Polynesian *witi Hawaiian wiki Hawaiian wikiwiki Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *webaną Proto-Germanic *wabją Old English webb Middle English web English web English WikiWikiWebclip. English wiki Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-seti Proto-Indo-European *téḱseti Proto-Italic *teksō? Latin texō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus New Latin textusbor. Old French textebor. Middle English text English text English wikitext From wiki + text.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:wiki jargon, uncountable) A lightweight markup language used to format and structure pages in wikis.
    • It is also possible to extend the wikitext with explicit semantic information encoded with the use of RDF[…] 2011, Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence III, page 106:
  2. (qualifier:wiki jargon, uncountable) Content that has been marked up with such a language.
    • This latter format, called wikitext, is written by means of a simplified markup language and its style and syntax vary, depending on the different implementations. 2010, Francisco V. Cipolla-Ficarra, Quality and Communicability for Interactive Hypermedia Systems:

Descendants

위키텍스트 · teks wiki · wikitekst · вікіте́кст · уиките́кст · wikiteksti · wikitexte · ウィキテキスト

Relateds

Scribunto · Lua

Synonyms

wiki markup · wikicode

Translations (10)

bg уиките́кст (markup language for wikis) · da wikikode (markup language for wikis) · pl wikitekst (markup language for wikis) · ko 위키텍스트 (markup language for wikis) · ja ウィキテキスト (markup language for wikis) · uk вікіте́кст (markup language for wikis) · fi wikiteksti (markup language for wikis) · fr wikitexte (markup language for wikis) · pt wikitexto (markup language for wikis) · id teks wiki (markup language for wikis)