I'm really not an expert on German. However, I have been slowly analyzing
common trails in some other languages with purpose of doing smarter link
trailing some day. It's a very crazy and long term pet project :) In
theory, I could do it for German, too.

בתאריך יום ה׳, 4 באוק׳ 2018, 18:39, מאת C. Scott Ananian ‏<
canan...@wikimedia.org>:

>
> https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grafikus_matroid&diff=prev&oldid=20406147
> illustrates another use: separating - and { in the unusual case where this
> string is wanted and you *don't* want language converter markup.  ie
> `-<nowiki/>{foo}-` is different from `-{foo}-`.  You don't usually notice
> this because languageconversion is disabled in many wikis, but it can cause
> problems if unbalanced syntax is used inside a template argument, like:
> `{{foo|-{bar}}`.  Here you need to use `{{foo|-<nowiki/>{bar}}`, even if
> LanguageConverter is not enabled.
>
> Amir -- in german, shouldn't they be tweaking the "linktrail" setting on
> dewiki, instead of using `<nowiki/>`?  What are cases where they *do* want
> the link to include the entire word?  Can they be automatically
> distinguished?
>  --scott
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 11:17 AM Bináris <wikipo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Here is a list of removals. :-)
> >
> >
> https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speci%C3%A1lis:Szerkeszt%C5%91_k%C3%B6zrem%C5%B1k%C3%B6d%C3%A9sei/BinBot&offset=20180912205000&target=BinBot&limit=28
> >
> >
> > Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> ezt írta (időpont: 2018.
> > okt. 4., Cs, 16:47):
> >
> > > Thanks. Can you please give some particular examples?
> > >
> > > בתאריך יום ה׳, 4 באוק׳ 2018, 17:41, מאת Bináris ‏<wikipo...@gmail.com
> >:
> > >
> > > > Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> ezt írta (időpont:
> > 2018.
> > > > okt. 4., Cs, 16:18):
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > <nowiki>This sentence shows the template used at the end.{{Citation
> > > > > needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole
> > > sentence|date=October
> > > > > 2018}}</nowiki>
> > > > >
> > > > > However, <nowiki> has less trivial use cases, that are not quite
> the
> > > same
> > > > > as demonstrating wiki syntax. One such usage I'm aware of is
> linking
> > a
> > > > part
> > > > > of a long compound German word, for example "[[Schnee]]<nowiki
> > > > />reichtum".
> > > > > It produces the desired effect, however it is a bit of a hack: the
> > word
> > > > > "nowiki" doesn't have anything to do with dividing compound words.
> > This
> > > > use
> > > > > is quite common in the German Wikipedia because of the nature of
> the
> > > > German
> > > > > language, which has a lot of long compound words.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > We have a lot of them in Hungarian Wikipedia, and we have just
> decided
> > to
> > > > eradicate them, because this is a non-desired effect. :-)
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