MediaWiki Converter
FileFlip converts MediaWiki files into 61 other formats entirely inside your browser, using Pandoc, MuPDF and ImageMagick compiled to WebAssembly. The MediaWiki file is never uploaded to a server: it is read off your disk, converted on your own machine, and saved back by the browser. There is no file-size limit and no account to create.
How do I convert a MediaWiki file?#
- Drop your MediaWiki file onto the converter at the top of this page, or click it to pick one from your computer.
- Choose the format you want out of it. FileFlip downloads the engine that conversion needs, once, and your browser caches it.
- Conversion starts the moment you pick the format, and the result is yours to download. The work happens in this tab, so nothing is uploaded and nothing is queued.
Is it safe to convert MediaWiki files online?#
Yes, because nothing is uploaded. FileFlip converts MediaWiki files inside the browser tab you already have open, using WebAssembly builds of the same engines a desktop converter would install. Your file is read from your own disk into the page's memory, and no request carrying it is ever made.
You do not have to take that on trust. Open your browser's network panel, run a conversion, and you will see the engine come down and your file go nowhere. There is no upload, no server-side copy, no retention window, and no account tied to what you converted.
How FileFlip works lists every engine, its version and its download size, and shows how to check for yourself that nothing leaves your machine.
What happens to a MediaWiki file#
FileFlip converts MediaWiki into 61 formats with Pandoc, MuPDF and ImageMagick, all of it inside the browser tab. Each conversion below names the engine it uses, what it downloads, and exactly what that conversion keeps or drops.
| Category | Documents |
|---|---|
| File extension | .mediawiki |
| FileFlip support | Read and written |
| Conversions available | 61 |
| Engines | Pandoc, MuPDF and ImageMagick |
| Downloaded to your browser | 65.8 MB on the first conversion, then cached |
What is a MediaWiki file?#
A MEDIAWIKI file holds wikitext, the plain-text markup that MediaWiki software turns into a wiki page, using double square brackets for links and double curly braces to transclude templates.
Keep content as MediaWiki markup while it lives on Wikipedia or another MediaWiki install, since that's the only place templates and transclusion actually render.
Convert MediaWiki markup to another format when moving an article out of a wiki for good, such as into a document or a static site, and accept that any templates it used will not expand.
The MediaWiki file format reference covers the specification, the programs that open one, and what each conversion keeps or drops.
MediaWiki questions people ask#
What is a .mediawiki file?
A .mediawiki file holds wikitext, the plain-text markup language behind Wikipedia and any other site running MediaWiki software. It's the same syntax you'd see by clicking Edit source on a Wikipedia page: double brackets for links, equals signs for headings, and curly braces for templates.
Can I open a MediaWiki file in Word?
Word doesn't understand MediaWiki markup, so opening the raw file just shows the wikitext characters instead of formatted text. Converting it to a .docx first renders the headings, links, and tables Word does understand, though anything built from a template comes through as whatever text was left in the source rather than the rendered result.
What happens to Wikipedia templates when I convert wikitext?
MediaWiki markup expresses a template as a name inside double curly braces, and the actual content only appears once MediaWiki's own template engine expands it on its servers. A converter working from raw wikitext never sees that expansion, so infoboxes, citation templates, and navigation boxes come through as their unexpanded template calls, or get dropped entirely.
Is MediaWiki markup the same as Markdown?
No. MediaWiki markup and Markdown both use plain-text symbols for formatting, but the syntax differs in almost every detail, from how links are written to how tables and templates work, and MediaWiki markup has no direct Markdown equivalent for transclusion. A file written as one won't render correctly if opened as the other.