I'm looking for guidance on using html character entities in wikitext. Example: - I want the user to see "<CR>". - The correct html would be "<CR>". - But using "<CR>" in the wikitext works (MediaWiki generates "<CR>" in the html).
On the Vim Tips wiki (Vim is a programmer's text editor), we love weird symbols. The wikitext on a typical page (for example http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip1) can be really hard to work with because it's full of "<" etc. Many of our pages use "<" for "<", ">" for ">" and "&" for "&" because that's the "right thing to do". However, I can't find any relevant documentation on wikitext, and lately, we've been favouring expediency and have used "<" and ">" and "&" in wikitext (for example http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip1548). I have seen some tragic consequences. If we use "<S-F1>" (Shift+F1 key), we get strike through like <s>...</s>. Also "<q-args>" renders as curly quotes. In both cases, the "-" and what follows is omitted. If someone can point me to the MediaWiki source responsible, I'd like to browse it so I can see what else might cause trouble. What should I do? I'd like to have simple wikitext and use "<", ">", "&" (it makes quite a bit of difference to editors, and we need a lot of editing). I think we could tolerate the manual patching we'd have to do to fix occasional breakages like "<S-F1>". Before I convert 1000 pages by removing character entities, I'd appreciate advice on how to handle this. John _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
