Deprecated since:5.3.0(seeProcedure Call Syntax)

What follows is a formal presentation of the syntax of the WikiText syntax for macro calls, using railroad diagrams. A simpler overview is also available.

space denotes a sequence of whitespace characters.

The macro's name is a sequence of non-whitespace characters other than ( or >.

Each individual param-value has the following syntax:

The param-name is a sequence of letters (A–Z, a–z), digits (0–9), hyphens (-) and underscores (_).

The value is specified as follows: