More than one HTML comment at the start of a line causes line contents to be passed through without conversion to wikitext
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	• Elitre
	Feb 4 2014, 2:51 PM

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At en.wp, Fram provided a description of how to "trick" VE into showing some markup without actually typing it.

<<Start from an "empty" page (it contains some hidden comments, but since you can't remove these with VE...): [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fram/sandbox&oldid=593249688].

Now reopen that page in VE: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fram/sandbox&oldid=593249716&veaction=edit] Hey presto, I get <nowiki>== Test ==</nowiki> instead of the actual header appearance, due to the invisible and unremovable hidden comments. >>

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Severity: major

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 2:53 AM

• bzimport set Reference to bz60829.

Works:

==Bar==

Doesn't work:

==Bar==

Sad.

Change 122448 had a related patch set uploaded by Subramanya Sastry:
(Bug 60829) Accept multiple comments in SOL context

Change 122448 merged by jenkins-bot:
(Bug 60829) Accept multiple comments in SOL context