Some days ago, I added a couple of empty links on my user page. They showed, so I enclosed them in <nowiki> so that they would be passed through as HTML and be invisible. I just checked and they are visible. Was something changed?
Well, it's either broken or fixed, depending on your point of view. I was convinced by requests in the bug tracker that the "right" thing to do was not parse HTML inside nowiki blocks. If you want to hide something on your user page, put it in HTML comments: <!-- like this --> (and comments can't span lines, BTW).
On Wednesday 07 August 2002 21:57, lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:
Some days ago, I added a couple of empty links on my user page. They showed, so I enclosed them in <nowiki> so that they would be passed through as HTML and be invisible. I just checked and they are visible. Was something changed?
Well, it's either broken or fixed, depending on your point of view. I was convinced by requests in the bug tracker that the "right" thing to do was not parse HTML inside nowiki blocks. If you want to hide something on your user page, put it in HTML comments: <!-- like this --> (and comments can't span lines, BTW).
I'm not sure whether the spambots will find them if they are commented out. I just turned them into two single-nbsp links; I'm not sure how to make them more invisible.
Can you think of any good places to put them? How much traffic does Wikipedia get from spambots?
phma
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