[Wikipedia-l] New Bug: Newline within a Link

Brion Vibber vibber at aludra.usc.edu
Mon Mar 10 20:33:28 UTC 2003


On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> This is from my bug page http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%3AKeichwa:
> Let's learn [[Italian
> language|Italian]].

The bug's in your editor, I'm afraid. Wiki syntax doesn't cross
linebreaks. For one thing, this helps contain damage from Markup Gone Mad;
a lone opening tag that isn't closed turning an entire page into
gibberish.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)




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