https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49686
wikif...@gmail.com changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED
CC| |wikif...@gmail.com
Resolution|WONTFIX |---
--- Comment #34 from wikif...@gmail.com ---
Erik Moeller, do you have any idea how many hours are spent on correcting these
"nowikis" every day? Do you, on the other hand, have any data on how many
"correct" nowiki tags are added? Is there any reason why what should be a
no-brainer (not per se an easy one technically, but a no-brainer from the
should-be-done point-of-view) improvement is so drastically rejected?
Have any of you considered that, as of now, new editors using only VE and only
editing the mainspace still need to know the [[ ]] syntax anyway? A simple
example: on the English wikipedia, I opened [[HKBK College of Engineering]]
with the VE, and clicked on the infobox. Click on a parameter, e.g. city, and
what you are confronted with is [[Bangalore]]. So new editors ''need'' to use
it in the infobox, but are ''not allowed'' to use it in the article text, and
this is supposed to be an improvement why?
What is actually the reason (apart from perhaps "technical difficulty") that
square brackets are no longer allowed as an alternative method of creating
wikilinks? No one is asking to disable the VE wikilinking methods, but no one
seems to understand the insistence of the WMF on disallowing the square
brackets method either.
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