Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-31668539-20170820232812/@comment-32354545-20170821032639

Andrewds1021 wrote: I am not sure I understand what is being used for. The "nowiki" tag is used to enclose text that should not be interpreted as MediaWiki markup. As such, it makes no sense to have an empty "nowiki" tag. Also, "nowiki" is MediaWiki specific so I am not sure how this would be handled by browsers.

I think that he was trying to display content within nowiki tags, but mistook a  tag for a closing nowiki tag, which is. These are different.

Though, there is a place for empty nowiki tags. They can break things that would otherwise be parsed:  is broken by the empty tag between the brackets and will display as an unparsed wikilink.