Last modified: 2014-11-13 12:23:29 UTC
VE allows editing text between <pre>...</pre> tags. That is, you seem to be able, for example, to add working wikilinks and references. Once you save though, everything is rendered as wikicode, as in [[France]] and <ref>France</ref>, and of course is not clickable. Thryduulf argues that "VE shouldn't show it as working if it won't work after saving".
Content that is pre-formatted is not wrapped in <pre> tags but with space-indented-preformatting, which does work with wikitext structures.