https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50841

--- Comment #8 from Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Actually, why not use entities for escaping?  That will eliminate nowikis,
> make
> them editable, and display as text.
> 
> [[Foo]] ==> &#91;&#91;Foo&#93;&#93;
> 
> and the like.  Am I missing something that makes this problematic?

Numeric entities are very hard for users to decipher. While unwanted nowiki
tags can simply be removed, fixing up unwanted entity escapes is much more
work.

(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > Re language conversion:
> > How often is nowiki used to suppress language conversion? Could -{ }- or 
> > some
> > other syntax be used instead?
> 
> It's more like some side effect...

For us it would be helpful if we could separate those two aspects. If little
existing content relies on language conversion being disabled in nowiki, then
that might actually be possible.

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