640379 - nowiki syntax not fully implemented

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(support.mozillamessaging.com Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[jenzed]

The <nowiki> tag should prevent the parser from automatically generating a link. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#How_to_avoid_auto-links. On kitsune, however, it does not work for external links. For example, both "http://mediawiki.org" and "<nowiki>http://mediawiki.org</nowiki>" generate linked text. 

<nowiki> seems to be correctly implemented for links to pages within the same site. For example, <nowiki>[[Another Page]]</nowiki> generates the unlinked text "[[Another Page]]".

Comment 1

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

<nowiki> in the current parser doesn't know anything our custom extensions, and external URLs are linkified after wiki markup is processed.