https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33297
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Bug #: 33297
Summary: Section headings containing words like "Advertisement"
and "Advertisements" fail to display
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
If a section in Wikipedia is named "Advertisement" or "Advertisements", only a
blank space appears in the article where the word should be. For example, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Logos, just below the section named
"Editorial concerns". Even though the section title causes a blank space in
the article, it nonetheless appears in the Table of Contents. (I've
temporarily worked around the bug by inserting spaces between the characters,
but this can easily be reproduced in the Wikipedia Sandbox.) The effect seems
to only happen in the first instance of such a section title in an article, as
one can name subsequent sections and subsections "Advertisement" or
"Advertisements" and the titles appear as expected.
This may be a remnant of a long-forgotten scheme to suppress spamming in the
wiki, and there may be more "special" undocumented words that cause the bug to
manifest. Only a scrutiny of the wiki source code will reveal if this is true.
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