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talk) 11:55, 1 November 2013 (UTC)reply
Hello, I am interested in the technical aspects of Wikipedia. Initially I thought that Wikipedia used HTML as its source code, yet more recently upon pressing the "view source" of a protected page I have discovered a unique syntax you seem to refer to as 'wikicode', since then I have been looking at Wikipedia's templates which seem to begin and end with two '{' facing both directions. I have recently come across this 'helpme' template, so I thought I would aid in the technical aspects of Wikipedia. I am really interested of the efficiency of the efficiency and robustness of the HTML to WIKI-CODE (or vice versa) converters. But, if there are any fees involved with Wikipedia, I am not interested!
Hi! For basic information on Wikipedia you could try the
Wikipedia article. No, there are no fees involved.
For an introduction to the 'wikicode', try
Help:Wiki markup; for deeper information try
Help:HTML in wikitext,
Help:Magic words and
Help:Template. The conversion of wikicode to HTML is handled by the
MediaWiki software. It's all open source, so if you really want to explore how the conversion is done, you can download the source code.
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And I've removed your talk page access, for obvious reasons. Your little brother may have done that blood test nonsense (sure), but that's beside the point.
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