On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:23:08PM -0800, Brion VIBBER wrote:
> Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> >Please restore old meaning of <pre> which suppressed interpretation
> >of wiki markup ! (for Polish Wikipedia at least, I don't care much
> >whether others will have broken markup)
>
> I don't remember it ever working differently; I was not aware that the
> behavior had been changed. Changing it again now would of course
> probably break other code...
It always worked differently.
If you don't want to mess with code too much, just insert something like:
if ($language eq "pl")
{
$text =~ s/<pre>/<pre><nowiki>/g;
$text =~ s/<\/pre>/<\/nowiki><\/pre>/g;
}
> >It broke virtually all code examples on Polish Wikipedia !!!
>
> If you want that, use:
> <pre><nowiki>
> ...
> </nowiki></pre>
Some 90% of <pre> would need such change.
First, it would mean lot of wasted effort.
Second, <pre> on wiki has always been meant for listing code,
so it makes no sense at all to use wiki markup inside <pre>.
And third, <nowiki> is extremely low level markup. Introducing
more low level markup is not right direction.
In future, some higher level mechanism like <code name="hello.cpp"></code>
may be implemented, to get rid of <pre> and <nowiki> and give some extras
like downloading examples listed in arcticle, searching for code etc.
But as for now let <pre> keep its old meaning.
> >And don't do any more changes to markup in future without telling
> >people about that.
>
> I'll just point out we had a test server running for *months* with the
> new software and a copy of the Polish wiki precisely to check for things
> that might need to be fixed or changed.
Human testing is always unreliable - people take most efford to check things
they suspect might be broken, like translation. They don't check things they
don't expect to break.