diff --git a/lib/gollum/markup.rb b/lib/gollum/markup.rb
index 7a521ed8..236c0fc2 100644
--- a/lib/gollum/markup.rb
+++ b/lib/gollum/markup.rb
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ module Gollum
       @name    = page.filename
       @data    = page.text_data
       @version = page.version.id
+      @format  = page.format
       @dir     = ::File.dirname(page.path)
       @tagmap  = {}
       @codemap = {}
@@ -294,22 +295,26 @@ module Gollum
     # Returns the String HTML if the tag is a valid page link tag or nil
     #   if it is not.
     def process_page_link_tag(tag, no_follow = false)
-      parts = tag.split('|')
-      name  = parts[0].strip
-      cname = @wiki.page_class.cname((parts[1] || parts[0]).strip)
-      tag = if name =~ %r{^https?://} && parts[1].nil?
-        %{<a href="#{name}">#{name}</a>}
-      else
-        presence    = "absent"
-        link_name   = cname
-        page, extra = find_page_from_name(cname)
-        if page
-          link_name = @wiki.page_class.cname(page.name)
-          presence  = "present"
-        end
-        link = ::File.join(@wiki.base_path, CGI.escape(link_name))
-        %{<a class="internal #{presence}" href="#{link}#{extra}">#{name}</a>}
-      end
+      parts = if @format == :mediawiki
+                tag.split('|').reverse
+              else
+                tag.split('|')
+              end
+      name, page_name = *parts.compact.map(&:strip)
+      cname = @wiki.page_class.cname(page_name || name)
+      tag = if name =~ %r{^https?://} && page_name.nil?
+              %{<a href="#{name}">#{name}</a>}
+            else
+              presence    = "absent"
+              link_name   = cname
+              page, extra = find_page_from_name(cname)
+              if page
+                link_name = @wiki.page_class.cname(page.name)
+                presence  = "present"
+              end
+              link = ::File.join(@wiki.base_path, CGI.escape(link_name))
+              %{<a class="internal #{presence}" href="#{link}#{extra}">#{name}</a>}
+            end
       if tag && no_follow
         tag.sub! /^<a/, '<a ref="nofollow"'
       end
diff --git a/test/test_markup.rb b/test/test_markup.rb
index 3664bc5a..f5015a73 100644
--- a/test/test_markup.rb
+++ b/test/test_markup.rb
@@ -169,6 +169,13 @@ context "Markup" do
     assert_equal "<p>a <a class=\"internal present\" href=\"/Potato\">Potato Heaad</a></p>", output
   end
 
+  test "page link with different text on mediawiki" do
+    @wiki.write_page("Potato", :mediawiki, "a [[Potato|Potato Heaad]] ", commit_details)
+    page = @wiki.page("Potato")
+    output = page.formatted_data
+    assert_equal "<p>\na <a class=\"internal present\" href=\"/Potato\">Potato Heaad</a> \n</p>", output
+  end
+
   #########################################################################
   #
   # Images