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I made a MediaWiki extension here that adds tags that can be used to format stories with larger spacing and fixed width so they don't turn into giant walls of text.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Story_Paragraph

I'm recommending this since it could be useful here. One of the reasons I created it is because it's shorter and more user friendly than creating a CSS class that does the same thing, since setting the class requires some HTML knowledge and isn't intuitive.


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Actually, it seems it's escaping wiki markup.


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On my own computer, I removed htmlspecialchars() from $output in a similar extensions. I tried adding an iframe in the tags to a personal wiki and it seemed to be escaped, presumably with the rest of the wiki text. I haven't altered the published code yet since I want to make completely sure that what I did was the right solution.

We dont use mediawiki, our wiki does not use PHP either. CSS is the best option for us at some point (I am fully aware our story wiki stuff is quite ugly at the moment!)

 legoburner wrote:
We dont use mediawiki, our wiki does not use PHP either. CSS is the best option for us at some point (I am fully aware our story wiki stuff is quite ugly at the moment!)

Oh. I thought that's what it looked like. CSS is fine, it's what we use, but users not experienced with it might not know what to write out when they don't have a template to insert it with.