[Mediawiki-l] nowiki tag not working for me

Jean-Marc van Leerdam j.m.van.leerdam at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 14:26:53 UTC 2009


Hi,

2009/1/16 Dave Derry <dave.derry at equifax.com>

> 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.
>

On default MW 1.13.3, using monobook skin, the <nowiki> solution should work
just fine. Are you using some special skin and/or extensions that could
interfere?

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Regards,

Jean-Marc
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