>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #1267234. --> Reported by: [asb](https://www.drupal.org/user/37833) >>> <p>I'd like to kindly ask for a review of the <a href="http://drupal.org/sandbox/asb/1199160">MediaWiki Filter</a> sandbox project.</p> <p>The <em>MediaWiki Filter module</em> for D6 provides an input format, compatible with MediaWiki markup. Opposed to older approaches, it does not emulate the MediaWiki parser, but wraps the original MediaWiki's library for parsing and rendering MediaWiki syntax. The module is intended - once it has gained full project status - to become the successor of the de-facto abandoned <a href="http://drupal.org/project/pearwiki_filter">PEAR Wiki Filter</a>, and it can be used as a plug-in-replacement for the MediaWiki component of the legacy PEAR Wiki Filter; however it does <em>not</em> aim to replace other syntax types provided by the PEAR package (like TikiWiki, DokuWiki, Creole. or BBCode).</p> <p>MediaWiki markup is the most widely known type of Wiki-style markup as it is used on all Wikimedia projects (like <em>Wikipedia</em>, <em>Wikinews</em>, <em>Wikimedia Commons</em>, etc.), and in every installation of the <a href="http://www.mediawiki.org/">MediaWiki</a> software. Support for this widely accepted markup is crucial for many sites targeting users with experience in writing Wikipedia articles, e.g. from the academic community, or from the usage of MediaWiki in corporate intranets. PEAR Wiki Filter is not a viable option for those projects as it has lots of unresolved major issues (last release: 6.x-1.0-beta1 from December 2007). So it seems to make much sense to provide an official release for the inofficial successor - which is mediawiki_filter.</p> <p>This module is not a creation of myself; it was originally developed for <a href="http://drupal.org/node/548672">Origo</a>, a project which has been featured as a Drupal showcase in August 2009 on drupal.org, as a replacement for PEAR Wiki Filter, but it was never released as a project on d.o. The primary developers, <a href="http://drupal.org/user/73064">r&ouml;tzi</a> and <a href="http://drupal.org/user/493942">bherlig</a> have been contacted, and both agreed to elevate their module to an official d.o project. The packaged MediaWiki components are licensed under the GNU General Public License (<a href="http://drupal.org/node/1199368">discussion of license compatibility</a>).</p> <p>The module is production ready <em>as is</em>; I'm using it on a dozen sites on a daily basis for about two years. However, there are some <a href="http://drupal.org/node/1201252">known issues</a>; at least one of them, an <a href="http://drupal.org/node/401876">incompatibility with Wikitools</a>, can not be addressed until the module has gained official project status on d.o.</p> <p>Current co-maintainers of the project are <a href="http://drupal.org/user/493942">bherlig</a>, one of the original authors, and <a href="http://drupal.org/user/191974">kenorb</a>, a developer with experience from a large number of other Drupal modules.</p> <p>Link to the git repository:</p> <p><code>git clone --branch master http://git.drupal.org/sandbox/asb/1199160.git mediawiki_filter</code></p> <p>Thank you!</p>