# You may want to write your own tag extension[1] or use an existing
one (which does not exactly do want you want)[2]
# clicking on the edit tab and changing "action=edit" in "action=raw"
(in the URI-bar) gives you a URI which spites out the raw wikitext[3]

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Tag_extensions
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Secure_HTML
[3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_action#Raw

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:41 AM, David Di Biase <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm building a somewhat unique Wiki that will involve me writing an
> extension that allows us to embed Flash content (ie. streaming video). We're
> doing research within the communication/media industry and need this
> ability. There are two specific issues I need to solve:
>
>   - First, and simplest, I'm having trouble writing out Flash object
>   references ie. <object classid=..... as HTML. I'm wondering how I can get
>   Wiki to ignore the fact that my parse function extension is giving it actual
>   HTML to render and not just Wiki format?
>   - The second issue I'm having is that we would like to format a specific
>   data structure within a Wiki article and have the Flash application retrieve
>   information from the article and parse it. The data is presented in the
>   other article as a simple list ie.
>
>   * Studio Name 1, 1980-1990
>   * Studio Name 2, 1980-1990
>   * Studio Name 3, 1980-1990
>   * Studio Name 4, 1980-1990
>   * Studio Name 5, 1980-1990
>   * Studio Name 6, 1980-1990
>   * Studio Name 7, 1980-1990
>
>   I'm wondering how I can extract that particular page for parsing by my
>   Flash. My thought was simple to create a script within my extensions folder
>   that spits out just the raw data from the Wiki page. So in essence when the
>   page is loaded the Flash app would make a call to
>   /extensions/myext/getarticledata.php?title=whatever here
>
> I have been poking around the MediaWiki articles on how to accomplish these
> types of things, but I can't seem to find a solid solution. I'm a beginner
> Wiki developer so some initial guidance would be super appreciated :-)
>
> Cheers and thanks!
>
> Dave
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