https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50527
--- Comment #17 from [email protected] --- (In reply to comment #15) > Chris, could you add a link to that comment. Im interested in why the nowiki > edit filter isnt sufficient. It isn't sufficient because it disappoints the first human involved, this hypothetical new editor that is so confused by all of our existing material that he's errantly typing wikitext into a source window. VE could *help* him, but instead it pops a warning. The warning obviously isn't working, because we see saves of this material happening constantly. He goes ahead and saves it anyway, and he's bewildered and confused: he did just what the little cheat sheet he got from a friend told him to do, and it didn't work. It's insufficient because it requires a second human being to then review the change, figure out what it was that the first human was actually attempting, and then correct it if he can. It's insufficient because it's in support of a use-case that doesn't exist: there's no reason to put something like [[New York City|the Big Apple]] into articles. If there *were*, it's coming from an editor that is quite skilled enough to go into the source editor. If we need to support putting such things in using the visual editor, a workflow can be designed with a "nowiki" button to do it intentionally. Instead, James Forrester and Erik Moller have decreed that the bug not be fixed, and that volunteers should eagerly flock to monitoring the output of an edit filter that detects each and every time this happens to that these volunteers can fix it. That's repulsive. That's a level of disregard for the volunteers that work on this project that is breathtaking. It's the *reason* that the VE team can fix dozens of bugs each hour and the Wikipedia community still complains that they are non-responsive. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
