diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs
index ed3a8fb12..cb9eee47d 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/MediaWiki.hs
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ tableStart :: MWParser ()
 tableStart = try $ guardColumnOne *> sym "{|"
 
 tableEnd :: MWParser ()
-tableEnd = try $ guardColumnOne *> sym "|}" <* blanklines
+tableEnd = try $ guardColumnOne *> sym "|}"
 
 rowsep :: MWParser ()
 rowsep = try $ guardColumnOne *> sym "|-" <* blanklines
diff --git a/tests/mediawiki-reader.native b/tests/mediawiki-reader.native
index a3dc2a08c..2527c7851 100644
--- a/tests/mediawiki-reader.native
+++ b/tests/mediawiki-reader.native
@@ -237,5 +237,9 @@ Pandoc (Meta {docTitle = [], docAuthors = [], docDate = []})
      ,[Para [Str "ice",Space,Str "cream"]]]]]]
  ,[[Para [Str "Butter"]]
   ,[Para [Str "Ice",Space,Str "cream"]]]]
+,Table [] [AlignDefault] [0.0]
+ [[]]
+ [[[Para [Str "Orange"]]]]
+,Para [Str "Paragraph",Space,Str "after",Space,Str "the",Space,Str "table."]
 ,Header 2 ("",[],[]) [Str "notes"]
 ,Para [Str "My",Space,Str "note!",Note [Plain [Str "This."]]]]
diff --git a/tests/mediawiki-reader.wiki b/tests/mediawiki-reader.wiki
index cc0ac7918..e373c332e 100644
--- a/tests/mediawiki-reader.wiki
+++ b/tests/mediawiki-reader.wiki
@@ -362,6 +362,9 @@ and cheese
 |Ice cream
 |}
 
+{|
+|Orange
+|}Paragraph after the table.
 
 == notes ==