In T363282#9740393, @hgzh wrote:

{{!}} is supposed to escape the pipe in parser function and template calls, not in basic wikisyntax. It can't do both.

In T363282#9739125, @hgzh wrote:

{{!}} needs to be treated as part of the table syntax for usage in parser functions.

Manually increasing the font size via common.css to 1.25em makes the "problem chips" (going to call them tags) more than readable enough without being too large. That might be the best solution to this.

Okay I accidentally moved this sorry