Thread:Project:Support desk/Copy large text to mediawiki using preformated text - nowiki/reply (4)

You might be able to use the 'code' tags for each paragraph. Gives word wrapping and allows links. (at least, I just learned that from the Help:Formatting page). But I think you might be sunk if you're trying to keep formatting of the line breaks AND allow the wiki to process links.

Is it just the line breaks that aren't working?