Last modified: 2014-02-24 19:17:59 UTC
Hallo! Opening this bug because bug 47 (found with search msgnw) seams to relate to somthing else. Wiki syntax specifies topics which depend on "beginning of lines" (as list syntax, table syntax). However {{msgnw:foo}} does not preserve lines. This will force users to edit 'foo' in order to identify these syntax errors. best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
*examples* Some MediaWiki messages are very difficult to "understand" to "debug". This is why the source code of the page is written over more lines: http://yi.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Edittools&action=edit http://yi.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Ipboptions&action=edit Keeping this as it is is the request from Bug 4356: keep ignoring new lines in [[MediaWiki:Ipboptions]] However http://yi.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Edittools#msgnw:MediaWiki:PAGENAME http://yi.wiktionary.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Ipboptions#msgnw:MediaWiki:PAGENAME is more difficult to understand. As described in bug 4946 comment 5 {{msgnw:}} can be used for documentation. It would be very usefull to see the same content *line by line* as seen in edit especially if the browsers bidirectional algorithm would change the word order because BiDi rendering over more lines is *not* the same as BiDi rendering of single lines. best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
*comment* neither {{msgnw:foo}} nor <pre> ... </pre> preserves the "source" in respect to character encoding using &: – renders as "–" and the coding of the "source" is visible only with edit / view source.   will not be visible because this is   Unicode Character 'NO-BREAK SPACE' (U+00A0). I would consider it as an improuvement if both {{msgnw:foo}} and <pre> ... </pre> would "escape" such characters. It would make writing documentation much more easy and consistent.
Still valid, see e.g. https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Help:MediaWiki_namespace&oldid=1163290#MSGNW for an example. For the records: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Templates says: {{msgnw:Name}} includes the template in a form that displays it as raw wiki syntax (the way <nowiki> does) when the page containing it is fetched.
