-{}- is already commonly used on LanguageConverter wikis for "this is a syntactic element but does nothing except separate a word". The preprocessor already understands it on all wikis, as well. (But then we explicitly serialize it to literally `-{}-` if your content language doesn't have variants defined.) --scott
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 5:25 PM Daniel Kinzler dkinzler@wikimedia.org wrote:
Am 04.10.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Thiemo Kreuz:
The syntax "[[Schnee]]<nowiki />reichtum" is quite common in the German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same: <span /> or ­ can be used instead.[1] The later is often the better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For example, "[[Bund]]<nowiki />estag" must become "[[Bund]]es­tag".
We could introduce new syntax for this, such as &nope; or even &nowiki;.
Or how about {{}} for "this is a syntactic element, but it does nothing"? But if that is mixed in with template expansion, it won't work if it expands to nothing, since template expansion happens before link parsing, right? For better or worse...
-- Daniel Kinzler Principal Software Engineer, MediaWiki Platform Wikimedia Foundation
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