On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
VE will (correctly, from its point of view) translate that to "<nowiki>[[pagename]]</nowiki>" in the page source.
This is a likely enough mistake, and the number of times you really want explicit double square brackets is small enough, that it's worth thinking about (if it hasn't been already) having VE detect and DTRT when a user types that.
There is an enhancement for that.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51897
IMO the current behaviour isnt correct. There are so few instances that nowiki is desirable, that the current VE should refuse to accept wikitext (at least [[ and {{, and maybe ==, # and * at beginning of line, etc ), until at least such time as they have sorted out all the other bugs causing this to happen unintentionally. If the user needs to input [[ or {{ they can use the source editor. Or the VE could walk the user through each nowiki and either a) ask the user to confirm they want the obvious fix done automatically for them, or b) help them fix the problem. Before saving.
nowiki is also being inserted at beginning of lines.
https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yacimiento_de_Son_Forn%C3%A9s&... https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joel_Lindpere&curid=5580501&a...
instead of lists
https://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jorge_Eslava&diff=68542729&am...
There are 24 open bugs for 'visualeditor nowiki'
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?title=Special%3ASearch&quicks...
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