Screenshot of the edit window in a Wikipedia article. Note the
<nowiki> tag, used to escape wiki markup and HTML. HTML comments
can be seen inside the Wikitext language, or wiki markup, is a
lightweight markup language used to write pages in wiki
websites, such as Wikipedia, and is a simplified
alternative/intermediate to HTML. Its ultimate purpose is to be
converted by wiki software into HTML, which in turn is served to
web browsers. There is no commonly accepted standard wikitext
language. The grammar, structure, justification, keywords and so
on depend on the particular wiki software used on the particular
website. For example, all wikitext markup languages have a
simple way of hyperlinking to other pages within the site, but
there are several different syntax conventions for these links.
Many wikis, especially the earlier ones, used CamelCase to mark
words that should be automatically linked. In MediaWiki, this
convention was replaced with the [[…]] notation, which Wikipedia
calls "free links". Different