[Wikia-l] Character entities in wikitext

[Angela]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:13 PM, John Beckett <johnb.beckett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, although my aim is to simplify the wikitext so it is easier to edit. I think
> using <nowiki> would only be useful to patch problem cases when they are noticed.

I'm not sure if this is a less complex option, but for the edge cases,
if you didn't want the ugly <nowiki> stuff in the article itself, you
could make templates for them instead. Example here:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki:Sandbox#template_version

so, typing {{s}} would result in "<S-F1>"

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Template:S

> You did NOT tell me to always use &lt; &gt; &amp; and I might infer that you think
> using < > & would be ok (with patching of problem cases).


I don't know of a reason to use &lt; instead of < in wikitext. Except
for those edge cases, I'd expect this to always work on the wiki.

Angela