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
>
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