https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17486
Summary: Editnotices generating invalid XML (HTML) around
unordered lists
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.14-svn
Platform: All
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ioet
h&action=edit
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: Page editing
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
It has been brought to my attention at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TW/BUG#TW-B-0250 that Twinkle (and
WP:FRIENDLY|Friendly as well, of course) are having problems editing pages that
are utilizing editnotices. I think I've tracked the problem down to a case of
bad XML (HTML) being returned from the server, although I cannot figure out
what the cause would be, other than a bug in the MediaWiki software. That
being the case, I'm coming here to confirm. I'll be using the talk page of
User:Amalthea (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Amalthea) to demonstrate
what I'm talking about.
First, have a look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Amalthea/Editnotice. Pretty standard,
right? And when you do a "View Page Source" have a look at the HTML generated
by the {{tmbox}} template, in particular at the end of the unordered list (<ul>
tag). Nothing wrong there.
Now, have a look at the same section of HTML when you edit Amalthea's talk page
(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Amalthea&action=edit).
What I'm seeing is that the </td> tag from the {{tmbox}} template is somehow
being placed before the </li></ul> tags that close the unordered list.
Immediately following the </li></ul> line is a line with </tr> to close the
table row. This is clearly incorrect and is, I believe, causing the XML parser
to bomb out when doing Twinkle or Friendly functions to pages where this
occurs.
If I just use one line of plain text in an editnotice, the corresponding HTML
on the page where it is displayed is correct. However, if I use a bulleted
list, the MediaWiki software incorrectly places the </div> tag exactly as it
was doing to the </td> tag in the previous example. It seems that there might
be a problem specifically with unordered lists in editnotices. Have a look at
editing my user talk page
(http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ioeth&action=edit) for an
example.
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