Tag box on top of Questions page doesn't show markdown backticks

Question

If you make a Tag Wiki entry, you can use the markdown backticks to show something is a tag (as is done quite often on these sites) and it shows it on the Tag info page. If you then go to the Tag Questions page, it just shows normal backticks.

Tag Info Page:

Tag Questions Page:

Here is a screenshot (Tag Info Page) showing that brackets are stripped out also:

EDIT: It would also be great if the new tag posting feature would work for tag wikis. Then it could look like so:

The excel tag is used for referencing the Excel spreadsheet application from Microsoft. If your question is about VBA then also tag it vba. If it is about an Excel formula or worksheet function, then tag it worksheet-function.

Answer 1

This is pretty much a duplicate of this question. I answered that one, but it doesn't have a bounty... so:

No markdown in the excerpt is by design in order to keep confusing visual cues at a minimum in an area of prime screen real estate.

The idea is that tag excerpts are at the top of the screen in an area where you expect post summaries to be, so any sort of visual formatting on the excerpts will distract the eye from the focus of the page (the post summaries). This would include back-ground color formatting for tags in an excerpt. The reason for the formatting doesn't really change how distracting it is.

Finally, there is now a specific box for the tag wiki excerpt. So it's quite simple to not put markdown in the excerpt.

Answer 2

This is by design, we are not allowing any html through for the tag wiki excerpts.

We would like to keep that section clean and simple, we want to take the minimal amount of focus away from the questions in the list.