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Are there plans to admit new lines in descriptions/examples?

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Melissenpai (talkcontribs)

Several fields of our infoboxes require new lines (for example, adding a tabbed gallery in the image section) and I've been using a symbol as an indicator for that.

My users are writers, not tecchies- so I'm trying to make our wiki as foolproof as possible. This lack of new lines in the Insert Template Wizard is proving very not foolproof.

Most users use the VE and rely on the examples provided by TemplateData. And no matter how many times, big, bolded and in caps I tell them that the symbols in descriptions and examples are meant to be replaced by an actual enter/new line. They are STILL copying the example and pasting it as it is, with the new line symbol.

Is there any way- even if I have to do elaborate things with the HTML, CSS, even JS of our wiki- to get those new lines to show in the wizard?

If not, please consider letting those through the plain text restriction

Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

I'm curious how this would help? I mean, how should a user understand that an invisible line break is meant to tell them something? Can you link to a specific example?

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