In my volunteer mode, I was removing content that was copied from an external site. I didn't add any content at all, but simply deleted text (and a template) and merged the resultant material into a single paragraph.
VisualEditor flagged this as my adding wikimarkup and gave me the nowiki warning. :)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimarkup_warning_without_case.png which is confusingly titled, because I missed the "u" in "cause."
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Replace hacky wikitext warning listener with sequences | mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor | master | +89 -81 |
From bug 53661:
The Wikitext warning is triggered in some circumstances without the user having
entered Wikitext. The one cause I can reliably reproduce is where there is
nowikied markup on the page from a previous edit.
To reproduce:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Thryduulf/sandbox3&oldid=571089410&veaction=edit
contains "[[Manhatan]]" and an ISBN, both of which are enclosed in nowiki
tags).
It seems that the warning is triggered by the existence of wikitext markup in
the VE editing surface, rather than by its addition.
I get this error by adding anything to the second paragraph (beginning "VisualEditor" at https://office.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mdennis/sandbox&oldid=105896 There are preëxistng (intentional) nowiki's in this paragraph, which may the cause.
Fixing this would cause a serious performance penalty for minor improvement in the user experience. WONTFIXing.
Change 175336 had a related patch set uploaded (by Catrope):
Replace hacky wikitext warning listener with sequences
Change 175336 merged by jenkins-bot:
Replace hacky wikitext warning listener with sequences