Last modified: 2013-07-30 10:07:32 UTC
It is usual to use [square brackets], [...] inside quotes to cut or complete sentences in quotes. As for today, VisualEditor will add <nowiki> tags like this: <nowiki>[Square brackets]</nowiki> <nowiki>[...]</nowiki> This is not a big deal since the users will keep seeing the same in the published article, but it adds unnecessary cruft in edit source mode and it's wrong. Also, according to Bug 47678 this means that editors won't be able to edit the content inside those brackets with VisualEditor, because of the <nowiki> tags.
We have refined the nowiki escaping in Parsoid so that external link like syntax that does not have a valid target is no longer escaped.
Looks like we are either still have a problem or it may have resurfaced; last section of: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raphael_Sch%C3%A4fer&diff=prev&oldid=562506378 and follow up edits.
Not really sure if this applies as well, but will leave it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ingress_(game)&diff=prev&oldid=562432188 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback#Strange_result_with_a_.3C.2Fnowiki.3E_tag_inserted . Thanks.
This bug was about single square brackets ([ ... ]), not wikitext links. Entering [[Foo]] as text will practically always need to be escaped as the rules for valid page titles are less restrictive than those for absolute URLs. Same is true for linking parts of a word where the remainder of the word would become part of the link via the link trail mechanism (aka- less precisely- 'piped links'). Or entering any other random wikitext in the VE. Not escaping such wikitext would break the WYSIWYG promise.
