It's a human-readable text format, so I'd advocate for text/x-wiki. I don't know where or how the application/x-wiki came about.
-- brion On Apr 25, 2012 9:09 AM, "Daniel Kinzler" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all! > > I just noticed that MediaWiki uses two different mime types for wikitext: > > * application/x-wiki is used by AjaxResponse, OutputPage and StreamFile. > * text/x-wiki is used by RawAction.php (i.e. when you use action=raw) > > Is there a good reason for this, or is it just an oversight? I suggest to > use > the same mime type everywhere, and keep the old one for compatibility > reasons - > i.e. we should use application/x-wiki consistently, and RawAction could > support > text/x-wiki as an alias. > > That being said... the *correct* mime type would imho be > application/x-mediawiki. But i don't insist on it :) > > -- daniel > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitext-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l >
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