diff --git a/tika-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/tika/mime/tika-mimetypes.xml b/tika-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/tika/mime/tika-mimetypes.xml
index e5863a19986..f447bf3d976 100644
--- a/tika-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/tika/mime/tika-mimetypes.xml
+++ b/tika-core/src/main/resources/org/apache/tika/mime/tika-mimetypes.xml
@@ -8533,8 +8533,10 @@
     <sub-class-of type="text/plain"/>
   </mime-type>
 
-  <mime-type type="text/x-web-markdown">
-    <_comment>Markdown source code</_comment>
+  <mime-type type="text/markdown">
+    <_comment>Markdown document</_comment>
+    <alias type="text/x-web-markdown"/>
+    <alias type="text/x-markdown"/>
     <glob pattern="*.md"/>
     <glob pattern="*.mdtext"/>
     <glob pattern="*.mkd"/>