[Vim-l] Character entities in wikitext

[Benjamin Fritz]

On 5/22/08, John Beckett <johnb.beckett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Angela wrote:
>  > Wikia's version has been modified since users requested
>  > additional tags be allowed. 'abbr', 'acronym'  'del', 'ins',
>  > 'q' are also permitted. I've just updated
>  > http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:HTML with that information.
>
>
> Thanks again.
>
>  For readers of this list:
>
>  I'll write this info up somewhere under our guidelines to explain that <xxx> can be
>  used in wikitext (don't need &lt;xxx&gt;), provided xxx is not in the list on the
>  above page.
>
>  If xxx is in the above list, then <xxx> will not be displayed (it is an html
>  element). Neither will <xxxcyyy> where c is not [_0-9a-zA-Z] and yyy is anything,
>  for example <q-args> does NOT display as "<q-args>" because <q> is in the above list
>  and '-' is a non-word character.
>
>
>  John
>

I think the best advice would just be:

Try it without anything special. Make sure to preview your work. If it
looks funky, use &lt; and &gt;