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Are there any desktop Linux text editors with support for wiki markup, and regular shortcuts like Ctrl+K to insert links?

mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Format

@mediawiki

www.mediawiki.orgHelp:Formatting - MediaWiki
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Like, there's a million text editors, and thousands supporting markdown, but I've never heard of one with support for the markup language used by @mediawiki, the biggest wiki software in the world. Isn't that a bit strange?

Also, is this markup language really named "wiki markup"? If so, then why isn't it even on Wikipedias own list of markup languages? They use it, but don't list it!? O.o en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparis

en.wikipedia.orgComparison of document markup languages - Wikipedia

@forteller @mediawiki Don't quote me on it but I assume one of the reasons there are not editors around that support such wikisyntaxes at any practical level, is because part of their syntax model is arbitrary extensibility: a syntax such as {{template|}} (Mediawiki) or {{plugin>}} (Dokuwiki, another ignored format!) to load documents from elsewhere, which can result in arbitrary processing or rendering, are too much a big sales point of those wikisyntax to "sell" it without them.

And at the point where you are not going to support the most powerful features of the syntax, which are irrevocably tied to running inside a databse engine / browser / whatever, then truly the only thing you can sell is "Yet Another HTML" and I guess no one wants to build the basic regex replaces to convert from one wikisyntax to the other, or to BBCode, or to HTML, or to... Perhaps it's a work considered "too basic"?

@forteller
Mediawiki markup languge name is "wikitext": m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikitext
And it looks like there's no formal spec for this language. I see that there was an attempt in 2016 to make one but the state of that RFC is "declined". So that might explain why there are no other editors supporting it.
@mediawiki

m.mediawiki.orgWikitext - MediaWiki

@older @forteller @mediawiki Indeed. The Wikitext language is defined by the PHP code which implements it in Mediawiki and is pretty much impossible to implement in a compatible way in any other language.