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+=== Pipe symbols in cells ===
+The pipe character is an important meta char to MediaWiki.
+Especially in tables, where each cell can be decorated with its own class and style specification, it is hard to get the
+pipe character displayed for what it is.
+While [[Wikipedia: Help:Table #Rendering the pipe]] has some suggestions for coping with this issue, we found that adding just another pipe right after the initial pipe(s) would do as well, see following examples.
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+|+ Compact syntax: one line per row
+|-
+! Wikitext
+! Rendered output
+|-
+| <syntaxhighlight lang="text">
+{| class="wikitable"
+!| A|X !!| B|Y
+|-
+|| 1|2 ||| 3|4
+|}
+</syntaxhighlight>
+|
+{| class="wikitable"
+!| A|X !!| B|Y
+|-
+|| 1|2 ||| 3|4
+|}
+|}
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+|+ “Airy” syntax: one line per cell
+|-
+! Wikitext
+! Rendered output
+|-
+| <syntaxhighlight lang="text">
+{| class="wikitable"
+!| A|X
+!| B|Y
+|-
+|| 1|2
+|| 3|4
+|}
+</syntaxhighlight>
+|
+{| class="wikitable"
+!| A|X
+!| B|Y
+|-
+|| 1|2
+|| 3|4
+|}
+|}
 == Combining table cells ==