illustrates another use: separating - and { in the unusual case where this
string is wanted and you *don't* want language converter markup. ie
`-<nowiki/>{foo}-` is different from `-{foo}-`. You don't usually notice
this because languageconversion is disabled in many wikis, but it can cause
problems if unbalanced syntax is used inside a template argument, like:
`{{foo|-{bar}}`. Here you need to use `{{foo|-<nowiki/>{bar}}`, even if
LanguageConverter is not enabled.
Amir -- in german, shouldn't they be tweaking the "linktrail" setting on
dewiki, instead of using `<nowiki/>`? What are cases where they *do* want
the link to include the entire word? Can they be automatically
distinguished?
--scott
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:17 AM Bináris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Here is a list of removals. :-)
https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speci%C3%A1lis:Szerkeszt%C5%91_k…
Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> ezt írta (időpont: 2018.
okt. 4., Cs, 16:47):
Thanks. Can you please give some particular
examples?
בתאריך יום ה׳, 4 באוק׳ 2018, 17:41, מאת Bináris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com>om>:
> Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> ezt írta (időpont:
2018.
okt. 4.,
Cs, 16:18):
>
> <nowiki>This sentence shows the template used at the end.{{Citation
> needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole
sentence|date=October
> 2018}}</nowiki>
>
> However, <nowiki> has less trivial use cases, that are not quite the
same
> > as demonstrating wiki syntax. One such usage I'm aware of is linking
a
> part
> > of a long compound German word, for example "[[Schnee]]<nowiki
> />reichtum".
> > It produces the desired effect, however it is a bit of a hack: the
word
> > "nowiki" doesn't have
anything to do with dividing compound words.
This
> use
> > is quite common in the German Wikipedia because of the nature of the
> German
> > language, which has a lot of long compound words.
> >
>
> We have a lot of them in Hungarian Wikipedia, and we have just decided
to
eradicate
them, because this is a non-desired effect. :-)
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