diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs
index 14f9da9b6..73177f531 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ tableEnd = try $ guardColumnOne *> skipSpaces *> sym "|}"
 
 rowsep :: PandocMonad m => MWParser m ()
 rowsep = try $ guardColumnOne *> skipSpaces *> sym "|-" <*
-               optional parseAttr <* blanklines
+               many (char '-') <* optional parseAttr <* blanklines
 
 cellsep :: PandocMonad m => MWParser m ()
 cellsep = try $