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Originally Posted by DaleDe
What page did you look at? The home page has some fancy html like constructs as I said. Take a look at the help page or most of the standard pages. There is on extensions on the files. It has a special rendering engine. There is no elements as defined in html, no head, no body. heading elements are defined as something like ==head== which has no form in html (equivalent <h2>head</h2>).
This forum is rendered in my browser as well but it is not html either so the claim that it has be html is incorrect. The rendering engine converts on the fly.
Dale
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Mediawiki is server software. Which means the "elements" get translated on the server into HTML, which your browser can read.
In Mediawiki, you can use ==head==, or you can use <h2>head</h2>. Both will work. So, is wiki code HTML or a custom format? It is both! Wiki language is just like any other server language (and it's fun to play with!), in that respect.
If you would save the pages, you don't save the server code, you save the generated code, aka the HTML pages.