Wikicode syntax for writing programming code
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	Novem_Linguae
	Aug 29 2025, 3:09 PM

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Tracking task (Epic) for ideas related to adding/removing/changing wikicode syntax for writing programming code.

In general, programming code in wikicode needs tags to wrap it so that the following behaviors can be provided:

monospace formatting
code highlighting
<nowiki>
in some cases may behave as inline (single line). in other cases may behave as a block (multiline)

This is already implemented in various ways: <code>, <source>, <pre>, <syntaxhighlight>, <syntaxhighlight inline>. But there are several tickets proposing changes to this, or additional (usually shorter) syntax. Please see subtasks.

There's like 7 related tickets about this, so I figured giving them the same parent task would make tracking them easier.

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open		None	T403277 Wikicode syntax for writing programming code
Open		None	T39042 Remove <source> syntax from SyntaxHighlight (GeSHi)
Resolved		DannyS712	T237267 Decide the fate of <source>
Declined	Feature	None	T402727 <code> tags should treat content inside them as <nowiki>
Open	Feature	None	T286569 Reserve ``` ``` syntax to indicate 'code' blocks in wikitext markup
Declined	Feature	None	T251116 Have a shorter name for <syntaxhighlight>
Open	Feature	None	T361407 Add short-to-type aliases for <syntaxhighlight> and <syntaxhighlight inline>
Open	Feature	None	T311518 Add ``` as shorthand for <syntaxhighlight>
Open	Feature	None	T217944 Support backticks (`) for code samples (as in Markdown)
Open	Feature	None	T334606 Use <code> instead of <syntaxhighlight>