#wikitext
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #wikitext from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #wikitext
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-10 19:44 UTC2 uses by 2 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-10 19:44 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #wikitext.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-10 19:44 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 17 public posts (spanning ~33558 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 19:00
Languages: English (17)
Avg boosts / post: 1.3
Top of the latest posts
in today's accidentally cursed #wikitext, a username that ends with ! combined with the stock text "Hello $username!" creates a literal !!, which just so happens to be table markup to create a new cell, so it blows up the template: https://
@cks I remember when MediaWiki's parser underwent a major overhaul, some years ago. At the time I thought how awful it must be to parse (MediaWiki) wikitext, given the terrible things that it does in the name of accommodating humans. I had
Should I dare to do a "why #Markdown is one of the worst lightweight markup syntax languages there is"-session at a UX/UI-dominant #barcamp? 😜 C'mon, do push me over that cliff! 😆 Background: https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-mar
What “wikitext” means
WikipediaA wiki is a form of hypertext publication on the internet which is collaboratively edited and managed by its audience directly through a web browser. A typical wiki contains multiple pages that can either be edited by the public or any organization. The name derives from the first user-editable website called WikiWikiWeb – wiki being a Hawaiian word meaning 'quick'.
“Wiki” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#wikitext across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #wikitext straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/wikitext