On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Daniel Barrett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Risker asks:
>
> Of course those <nowiki> tags weren't added by the editors, VE doesn't
> let you do that directly. What I think Robert was talking about
> (thanks for that analysis, BTW!) is edits where the user typed
> something like "[[Foo]]" into the editor, and Parsoid, in order to
> achieve a truthful rendering of "[[Foo]]", wraps it in <nowiki> tags.
> That's a case of "we did what the user asked us to do, although the
> user probably didn't mean that".

...


> These kinds of
> technically-correct-but-probably-not-what-you-wanted issues are a bit
> tricky. They're on our list of things to deal with though.


 FWIW, the WYSIWYG editor for the Socialtext wiki handles these cases well,
and has since at least 2007 or so.  I think Wikia is (or was) using some
derivative of this "Wikiwyg" editor.  Regardless, it might be a useful
oracle for VE behavior.
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