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1. Edit a wiki page and add the following default wiki markup for a message box: {{mbox | type = warning | text = '''IMPORTANT:''' This is an important message. }} 2. Select preview page. Result: Template:mbox 3. Remove above markup and add: {{Note | '''IMPORTANT:''' This is an important message. }} 4. Select preview page, again. Result: message box appears. 6. Add the following markup: {{Ask_us}} 7. Select preview page, again. Result: special ask_us box appears. 5. Search site or go to Getting Started links to find valid mbox values for docs.webplatform.org. ( Pages pointed to from the Getting Started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Implementation_Patterns ) Expected: a list of valid wiki markup values for this site. Actual: the valid wiki markup for this site is not documented here or any other site. Workaround: hunt and peck on the site until you find an example currently in use.
It seems like the referenced mailing list message is related to this report. If so we could perhaps document these changes somehow. I would ideally like to see a universal way to code up pages being done. Right now it seems like some pages are using the default MediaWiki syntax and some (looks like ones using the forms) are needing the escaping/extra syntax. Having a split syntax across the site is confusing. REF: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webplatform/2012Oct/0039.html
It looks like this page [1] on the wiki is trying to make the issues more discover-able. Now we need to make this page more well known. [1] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Manual_Of_Style/Gotchas
*** Bug 19793 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Reverting this bug's platform to All, as experience happens on all platforms.
New location: http://project.webplatform.org/content/issues/4