[Wikitech-l] Neapolitan double apostrophe (was Apple's Wiki Server brings WYSIWYG to wiki)

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On 8/17/06, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> IIRC, Steve, wasn't a large part of the problem that the parser would
> puke and die when presented with a *link* to such a page?

In part (it also screws up formatting any time the words are used),
but that doesn't preclude a parser hack, does it?  It may mean that
whatever solution they're currently using would become screwy if such
a parser extension gets installed, of course.  Which is quite feasible
. . . custom extensions have been installed on other WMF wikis before
for various reasons, although usually only in batches (e.g. the Poem
extension on Wikisource).  And this wouldn't be a hard extension to
write, if an extra parser pass on one of our smaller wikis (Wikipedia
#42 by article count, 12,000-odd) isn't an issue.