mediawiki escape wiki markup

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To prevent mediawiki from rendering a section to wiki markup, put text between tags. This is expecially useful pages like this one which attempt to explain mediawiki syntax.

<nowiki> [http://www.example.com link text] </nowiki>

renders...

 [http://www.example.com link text] 

without escaping...

link text