Hey!
The syntax "[[Schnee]]<nowiki />reichtum" is quite common in the
German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same:
<span /> or ­ can be used instead.[1] The later is often the
better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For
example, "[[Bund]]<nowiki />estag" must become "[[Bund]]es­tag".
Not long ago <b/> was often used. This became a problem with the
recent parser updates. All <b/> got replaced with <nowiki />, as far
as I'm aware of.
> in German, shouldn't they be tweaking the "linktrail" setting on dewiki,
> instead of using `<nowiki/>`? What are cases where they *do* want the link to
> include the entire word?
The software feature exists because of English [[word ending]]s. The
same exists in German ("viele [[Wiki]]s, viele [[Tisch]]e, viele
[[Arbeit]]en"), but is overshadowed by the fact that German is a
language with many composites. From my experience, the fact that all
linktrails, no matter how long, become part of the link is almost
always a problem. It enlarges the click region, which is good, but
surprises the reader when he ends at an unexpected article. I guess it
would actually be a net-gain when the feature gets turned off or tuned
down in German wikis. For example, we could limit the length of the
linktrail to 2 characters.
Is somebody interested in creating usage statistics for these
linktrails in the German Wikipedia main namespace?
Best
Thiemo
[1]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verlinken#Verlinkung_von_Teilw%C3%B6rtern
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