diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs
index d18a98bc0..89564f504 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ para = B.para . trimInlines . mconcat <$> many1 inline
 table :: MWParser Blocks
 table = do
   tableStart
+  styles <- manyTill anyChar newline
+  let tableWidth = maybe (1.0 :: Double) read
+                 $ lookup "width" $ parseAttrs styles
   caption <- option mempty tableCaption
   optional rowsep
   hasheader <- option False $ True <$ (lookAhead (char '!'))
@@ -178,8 +181,22 @@ table = do
   let cellspecs = replicate cols (AlignDefault, 0.0)
   return $ B.table caption cellspecs headers rows
 
+parseAttrs :: String -> [(String,String)]
+parseAttrs s = case parse (many parseAttr) "attributes" s of
+                    Right r -> r
+                    Left _  -> []
+
+parseAttr :: Parser String () (String, String)
+parseAttr = try $ do
+  skipMany spaceChar
+  k <- many1 letter
+  char '='
+  char '"'
+  v <- many1Till anyChar (char '"')
+  return (k,v)
+
 tableStart :: MWParser ()
-tableStart = try $ guardColumnOne *> sym "{|" <* blanklines
+tableStart = try $ guardColumnOne *> sym "{|"
 
 tableEnd :: MWParser ()
 tableEnd = try $ guardColumnOne *> sym "|}" <* blanklines
diff --git a/tests/mediawiki-reader.native b/tests/mediawiki-reader.native
index 6e19c14ce..9954481fd 100644
--- a/tests/mediawiki-reader.native
+++ b/tests/mediawiki-reader.native
@@ -199,4 +199,17 @@ Pandoc (Meta {docTitle = [], docAuthors = [], docDate = []})
   ,[Para [Str "Pie"]
    ,OrderedList (1,DefaultStyle,DefaultDelim)
     [[Plain [Str "apple"]]
-    ,[Plain [Str "carrot"]]]]]]]
+    ,[Plain [Str "carrot"]]]]]]
+,Table [] [AlignDefault,AlignDefault,AlignDefault] [0.0,0.0,0.0]
+ [[]
+ ,[]
+ ,[]]
+ [[[Para [Str "Orange"]]
+  ,[Para [Str "Apple"]]
+  ,[Para [Str "more"]]]
+ ,[[Para [Str "Bread"]]
+  ,[Para [Str "Pie"]]
+  ,[Para [Str "more"]]]
+ ,[[Para [Str "Butter"]]
+  ,[Para [Str "Ice",Space,Str "cream"]]
+  ,[Para [Str "and",Space,Str "more"]]]]]
diff --git a/tests/mediawiki-reader.wiki b/tests/mediawiki-reader.wiki
index b2bfb47e8..fd1159cd4 100644
--- a/tests/mediawiki-reader.wiki
+++ b/tests/mediawiki-reader.wiki
@@ -322,5 +322,11 @@ and cheese
 
 |}
 
-
+{|
+|  Orange    ||   Apple   ||   more
+|-
+|   Bread    ||   Pie     ||   more
+|-
+|   Butter   || Ice cream ||  and more
+|}