https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16854


Robert Rohde <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #20 from Robert Rohde <[email protected]>  2009-01-29 18:46:20 
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(In reply to comment #18)
> What en.wiki did was exactly what I was asking for, a hidden category that is
> used for tracking these error. huge red error messages are not as graceful as 
> a
> hidden category. 
> 

Actually enwiki's approach is still badly borked.  Because "Cite error: $1" is
used in a filter in front of each error message, changing this specific message
to a category results in an output of "Cite error:" with no visible error text,
e.g. see [[1949_Grand_Prix_season]] for a current example.

That can be fixed locally, but the solutions are generally inelegant, such as
changing cite_error to "$1".

Also, since people apparently don't want this message on talk pages (even as a
category), a hack has been added with the effect of killing ALL cite error
messages appearing outside the mainspace.  Again, a solution to that could be
put together locally but it won't be particularly pretty.

Not to mention that the hard coding of the formatting on cite_error also makes
changes to the presentation difficult to implement.


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