Wikinest Markdown to HTML

What it is for

A wiki page is more than plain Markdown. It has info and warning panels, coloured status labels, links to other pages by title, mentions of people, task lists and a table of contents that builds itself. This tool reads a page written in the Wikinest dialect and returns HTML you can paste into another system, email or publish as a single file.

It also checks the page: it counts words and headings, builds the outline, lists every [[Page]] link and tells you which of them point to pages that do not exist yet. Wikinest uses the same code to show pages and to export them, so what you see here is what the app shows.

Raw HTML in the Markdown is never passed through. It appears as text, and links with javascript: or other unsafe schemes are dropped. That makes the result safe to show on another website.

Worked example

Paste this page and enter one existing title, Release checklist, under existing page titles. Keep the outline at level 2:

## Release 2.5

{status:yellow|In review} · {date:2026-12-01}

:::warning Freeze
No merges after Thursday.
:::

- [x] Changelog
- [ ] Smoke tests — @[Grace]

See [[Release checklist]] and [[Rollback plan]].

The tool answers:

Converted “Release 2.5” (21 words, 1 heading) into an HTML fragment.

The metrics show 2 page links, 1 missing page, 1 open task and 1 done task. A warning says that [[Rollback plan]] points to a page that is not in your list. In the HTML the status becomes a yellow label, the date becomes a <time> element and the panel becomes a box with the role note, titled “Warning: Freeze”.

How to read the result

• Words and reading time count the visible text, not the Markdown symbols. Reading time assumes about 220 words per minute.
• Outline lists the headings with numbers such as 1, 1.1 and 1.2 and the anchor each heading gets. {{toc}} in the page renders this same list.
• Page links shows every [[Title]] and whether that title is in your list. Missing pages are shown as dashed links in the app, so readers can tell that the page is not written yet.
• Blocks found counts panels, code blocks, tables, task lists and expand sections. It is a quick check that the macros were recognised.
• With Whole HTML document switched on you get a complete file with a light and a dark stylesheet that opens in any browser.

Tips and common mistakes

• Panels need ::: on a line of their own at the start and at the end. Allowed kinds are info, success, warning and error, and note and tip also work.
• Status colours are grey, blue, green, yellow, red and purple. Any other colour stays as plain text.
• A | inside {status:…|…} or [[Page|label]] does not split a table cell, so you can put both in tables.
• {{children}} needs the child page titles. Enter them one per line, or the tool shows “This page has no child pages yet”.
• Images in Wikinest pages point to attachments (att:…). The tool keeps their description, because the files themselves are not part of the Markdown.

FAQ

Can I paste HTML into the Markdown?

You can, but it appears as text. That is on purpose: wiki pages are shared, and script or event attributes must never reach another reader's browser.

Which code languages are highlighted?

The highlighter knows JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java, C-like languages, shell, SQL, JSON, YAML, CSS and HTML. Other languages are shown as plain, escaped code.

How are heading anchors made?

The anchor is the heading text in lower case, with spaces replaced by hyphens and punctuation removed. Repeated headings get -2, -3 and so on, so every anchor is unique.

Does the tool store my page?

No. The page is converted for this one request and is not kept. In the Wikinest app, pages stay in your browser unless you share a space in a workspace.