```
% pandoc -t mediawiki
This is a normal sentence with a manual text footnote\*

\* The footnote explains why it couldn't just be inside parentheses

\#foobar \#foobar
^D
This is a normal sentence with a manual text footnote*

<nowiki></nowiki>* The footnote explains why it couldn’t just be inside parentheses

<nowiki></nowiki>#foobar #foobar
```