> Can you give us a page where this caused a problem in transclusion?
In
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%96%E3%81%AE%E6%98%A5#.E3.83.A2.E3.83.AD.E3.83.83.E3.82.B3
{{main|:en:2011–2012 Morocco protests}}
is rendered with visible brackets as
詳細は「[[::en:2011–2012 Morocco protests|:en:2011–2012 Morocco protests]]」を参照
(Jawiki's {{Main}} uses {{See/core}} to produce links.)
-Yusuke (User:Whym)
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Whym - This seems to be a very different use case which triggers the same
> issue. Can you give us a page where this caused a problem in transclusion?
>
> I have a feeling that we should extend Special:LintErrors to cover any
> template transclusion which ended up dumping [[::Actual title|whatever]]
> into the as-rendered wikitext.
>
> Deryck
>
> On 15 September 2017 at 09:19, Yusuke Matsubara <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > We can suggest edits to the affected templates we find referencing
>> > this thread (and hopefully changes to trunks will propagate out).
>>
>> Is there any systematic way to discover affected templates?
>> [[:ja:Template:See/core]] seems to be one, but I encountered it just
>> by chance.
>>
>> -Yusuke
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Arlo Breault <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Thanks for following up, and sorry for the delay.
>> >
>> >
>> >> On Sep 7, 2017, at 2:41 PM, Deryck Chan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Can you quantify lots?
>> >>
>> >> At least 5 templates (including the one discussed in this thread),
>> >> approx 160 transclusions on yue.wp, mostly in article space. That means
>> >> 0.25% of all articles.
>> >
>> > I see,
>> >
>> >
>> > https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AMergeto&type=revision&diff=1123381&oldid=1120457
>> >
>> > I assume you've made similar edits on the others.
>> >
>> >
>> >> According to the discussion, zh.wp is affected by this bug too: at
>> >> least 7 templates, according to my insource search.
>> >>
>> >> en.wp has at least 45 pages with this problem, including 9 templates.
>> >> [[en:Template:Merge to]] alone has 3000+ transclusions.
>> >
>> > The source here isn't exactly the same, since it sits behind the
>> > `target`
>> > parameter,
>> >
>> >
>> > {{#if:{{{target|}}}| ''[[:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{{target}}}|{{{target}}}]]''|
>> >
>> > which doesn't seem to be a common use, judging by a search,
>> >
>> > insource:/"{{merge to"/i
>> >
>> > [[en:Template:Original]] also uses this pattern, but doesn't appear
>> > to be used in the main article space.
>> >
>> >
>> >> Since this change affected [[en:Template:Merge to]] which is a trunk
>> >> project copied by many other wikis, I expect a very large - probably in
>> >> the
>> >> tens of thousands - total number of broken pages.
>> >
>> > It's certainly possible but, again, we did a bunch of testing
>> > and only found a handful of cases in our sample.
>> >
>> > Also, this thread is the only place it has currently been surfaced
>> > (to me :/).
>> >
>> >
>> >> My insource search string:
>> >> insource:/"[[:{{NAMESPACE}}:"/
>> >
>> > Where do we go from here?
>> >
>> > We can revert the change and add comments to the effect that this is
>> > acceptable syntax, mentioning this use case, and then go fix up other
>> > title parsing implementations.
>> >
>> > We can suggest edits to the affected templates we find referencing
>> > this thread (and hopefully changes to trunks will propagate out).
>> >
>> > I'm partial to the latter.
>> >
>> >
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