[Mediawiki-l] nowiki tag not working for me

[Mark (Markie)]

to get that kind of link you can use [http://google.com http://google.com]
which will display http://google.com as a link.

regards

mark

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Dave Derry <dave.derry at equifax.com> wrote:

> I don't have much experience with MediaWiki, so this may be a dumb
> question, but
> ...
>
> I'm writing a tutorial for our team. In it I reference example URLs, which,
> since they are just examples, don't go anywhere. When I enter something
> like
> http://test.efx.com:8080/sample I get a link. What I want is just plain
> text. I
> found the nowiki tag, which seems to be what I need. However, when I enter
> <nowiki>http://test.efx.com:8080/sample</nowiki>, what I get is a link
> surrounded by nowiki tags. In other words, the tags are displayed rather
> than
> being interpreted.
>
> Is there some configuration setting that needs to be made? Or something
> else
> that I'm missing? Using the latest stable MediaWiki on Solaris 10, running
> under
> Resin 3.1.7a.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
> Equifax, LLC
>
>
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