Re: [Wikitech-l] VE and nowiki

2013-07-23 Thread Steve Summit
Risker wrote: On 23 July 2013 15:32, Robert Rohde raro...@gmail.com wrote: * Corrupted page content that appears to be caused by the unfamiliar UI (e.g. nowiki[[Foo]]/nowiki) Why do you think those nowiki tags were added by the editors? I assume that since it's VE's job to be wysiwyg, and to

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE and nowiki

2013-07-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
Whoops, didn't realize this thread had been forked off while I was out to lunch, and so I responded to the other thread. Sorry about that :( On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Steve Summit s...@eskimo.com wrote: This is a likely enough mistake, and the number of times you really want explicit

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE and nowiki

2013-07-23 Thread John Vandenberg
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Steve Summit s...@eskimo.com wrote: VE will (correctly, from its point of view) translate that to nowiki[[pagename]]/nowiki in the page source. This is a likely enough mistake, and the number of times you really want explicit double square brackets is small

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE and nowiki

2013-07-23 Thread Roan Kattouw
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:14 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: There is an enhancement for that. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51897 IMO the current behaviour isnt correct. There are so few instances that nowiki is desirable, that the current VE should refuse to

Re: [Wikitech-l] VE and nowiki

2013-07-23 Thread Robert Rohde
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Roan Kattouw roan.katt...@gmail.com wrote: snip We disagree on that one then. VisualEditor is meant to hide wikitext entirely. The primary focus is on people that don't know wikitext. I agree that we should keep nowiki-fication to a minimum and get rid of the