2 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs
index cdb746c67..9f4d5e170 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs
@@ -112,12 +112,14 @@ newBlockTags = ["haskell","syntaxhighlight","source","gallery","references"]
 isBlockTag' :: Tag Text -> Bool
 isBlockTag' tag@(TagOpen t _) = (isBlockTag tag || t `elem` newBlockTags) &&
   t `notElem` eitherBlockOrInline
+isBlockTag' (TagClose "ref") = True -- needed so 'special' doesn't parse it
 isBlockTag' tag@(TagClose t) = (isBlockTag tag || t `elem` newBlockTags) &&
   t `notElem` eitherBlockOrInline
 isBlockTag' tag = isBlockTag tag
 
 isInlineTag' :: Tag Text -> Bool
 isInlineTag' (TagComment _) = True
+isInlineTag' (TagClose "ref") = False -- see below inlineTag
 isInlineTag' t              = not (isBlockTag' t)
 
 eitherBlockOrInline :: [Text]
@@ -554,11 +556,17 @@ variable = try $ do
   contents <- manyTillChar anyChar (try $ string "}}}")
   return $ "{{{" <> contents <> "}}}"
 
+singleParaToPlain :: Blocks -> Blocks
+singleParaToPlain bs =
+  case B.toList bs of
+    [Para ils] -> B.fromList [Plain ils]
+    _ -> bs
+
 inlineTag :: PandocMonad m => MWParser m Inlines
 inlineTag = do
   (tag, _) <- lookAhead $ htmlTag isInlineTag'
   case tag of
-       TagOpen "ref" _ -> B.note . B.plain <$> inlinesInTags "ref"
+       TagOpen "ref" _ -> B.note . singleParaToPlain <$> blocksInTags "ref"
        TagOpen "nowiki" _ -> try $ do
           (_,raw) <- htmlTag (~== tag)
           if T.any (== '/') raw
diff --git a/test/command/7145.md b/test/command/7145.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a04345890
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/command/7145.md
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+```
+% pandoc -f mediawiki -t native
+Maecenas at sapien tempor, pretium turpis ut, imperdiet augue.<ref>This is a multiline
+
+reference
+<i>with</i>
+empty
+
+linebreaks</ref>  Nulla ut massa eget ex venenatis lobortis id in eros.
+^D
+[Para [Str "Maecenas",Space,Str "at",Space,Str "sapien",Space,Str "tempor,",Space,Str "pretium",Space,Str "turpis",Space,Str "ut,",Space,Str "imperdiet",Space,Str "augue.",Note [Para [Str "This",Space,Str "is",Space,Str "a",Space,Str "multiline"],Para [Str "reference",SoftBreak,RawInline (Format "html") "<i>",Str "with",RawInline (Format "html") "</i>",SoftBreak,Str "empty"],Para [Str "linebreaks"]],Space,Str "Nulla",Space,Str "ut",Space,Str "massa",Space,Str "eget",Space,Str "ex",Space,Str "venenatis",Space,Str "lobortis",Space,Str "id",Space,Str "in",Space,Str "eros."]]
+```