Strip marker

Strip markers are alphanumeric strings in the form of (for instance  ) used as placeholders by MediaWiki parser to indicate that more complicated content will be included.

The MediaWiki software adds elements that look and act like XML tags. Parser tags are included in MediaWiki whereas parser extension tags are added by optional software extensions.

Parser extension tags
The following parser extension tags are typically used on Wikimedia wikis:

construct will expose the strip markers. Examples:  in  ;   in.
 * Using  in a piped link will expose the strip markers.
 * Lua code has access to strip markers and can corrupt them (e.g. uppercasing, lowercasing or truncation) such as  →.