On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Barrett danb@vistaprint.com wrote:
Risker asks:
Of course those <nowiki> tags weren't added by the editors, VE doesn't let you do that directly. What I think Robert was talking about (thanks for that analysis, BTW!) is edits where the user typed something like "[[Foo]]" into the editor, and Parsoid, in order to achieve a truthful rendering of "[[Foo]]", wraps it in <nowiki> tags. That's a case of "we did what the user asked us to do, although the user probably didn't mean that".
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These kinds of technically-correct-but-probably-not-what-you-wanted issues are a bit tricky. They're on our list of things to deal with though.
FWIW, the WYSIWYG editor for the Socialtext wiki handles these cases well, and has since at least 2007 or so. I think Wikia is (or was) using some derivative of this "Wikiwyg" editor. Regardless, it might be a useful oracle for VE behavior.