Last modified: 2014-03-20 23:11:04 UTC
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."
*** Bug 53661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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: 1. Load https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Thryduulf/sandbox3&oldid=571089410&veaction=edit 2. Click anywhere on the last line of Section number two (the line that 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.
