https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24774
Summary: rvexpandtemplates=true does not expand templates in
ref tags
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.17-svn
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: API
AssignedTo: roan.katt...@gmail.com
ReportedBy: gabumo...@hotmail.com
CC: bryan.tongm...@gmail.com, s...@reedyboy.net,
vasi...@gmail.com, soxre...@gmail.com
Any call to the API with action=query, prop=revisions, rvprop=content, and
rvexpandtemplates=true does not have expanded templates in the content when
that template is contained within <ref></ref> tags.
To reproduce, just make any such call to the API. For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Train&rvlimit=1&rvprop=content&redirects=true&rvexpandtemplates=true
Note that the templates within <ref> tags are not expanded:
<ref>{{cite web | title = Train (noun) | work = (definition - Compact OED) |
publisher = Oxford University Press | url =
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/train?view=uk | accessdate =
2008-03-18}}</ref>
It should instead expand the template like this:
<ref><span class="citation web"
>[http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/train?view=uk "Train (noun)"]. ''<nowiki
>/>(definition - Compact OED)<nowiki />''. Oxford University Press<span
>class="printonly">.
>http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/train?view=uk</span><span
>class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2008-03-18</span>.</span><span
class="Z3988"
title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Train+%28noun%29&rft.atitle=%28definition+-+Compact+OED%29&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.askoxford.com%2Fconcise_oed%2Ftrain%3Fview%3Duk&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:API"><span
style="display: none;"> </span></span></ref>
This has no good workaround; the best I can find is to grab all of the
unexpanded templates and feed them into another call to the API with
action=expandtemplates and text=(the templates), which is not very good not
only because it's extra hassle, but also because it requires twice as many
calls to the API, which inevitably slows things down considerably.
Build 2010-08-12 on Windows 7 Enterprise (though it being the result of an API
call, I would imagine it reproduces anywhere)
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