I'm personally a fan of <!>. I came across it years ago--it's a null comment. Can't find the reference at the moment though.
-Chad On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 2:25 PM Daniel Kinzler <dkinz...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Am 04.10.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Thiemo Kreuz: > > 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". > > We could introduce new syntax for this, such as &nope; or even &nowiki;. > > Or how about {{}} for "this is a syntactic element, but it does nothing"? > But if > that is mixed in with template expansion, it won't work if it expands to > nothing, since template expansion happens before link parsing, right? For > better > or worse... > > -- > Daniel Kinzler > Principal Software Engineer, MediaWiki Platform > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l