I came across this template recently -
https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:%E8%BB%9F%E5%BD%88

Any suggestions on how to fix this? This template forcefully prefixes a
colon to make sure a link rather than an interwiki or a categorization or
an image-load happens.

Deryck

On 4 October 2017 at 12:48, Deryck Chan <deryckc...@wikimedia.hk> wrote:

>  On Oct 2, 2017, at 9:52 AM, Deryck Chan <deryckc...@wikimedia.hk> wrote:
> >
> > I see that the linter has been deployed, but it doesn't seem to be
> picking up errors that result from template transcriptions, e.g.
> https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A9%A9 (Neither this page nor the
> template the caused the error has been changed since the MediaWiki breaking
> change.)
> >
> > https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LintErrors/multi-colon-escape
> shows no matches.
>
> The short answer is that, currently, there needs to be an edit to
> a page (or template transcluded on the page) before the results will
> show up.  T161556 is about reprocessing all pages.
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Linter#When_
> are_lint_errors_for_a_page_updated.3F
>
> Yea, for a linter to serve its intended purpose, it ought to exhaustively
> process every existing page upon deployment...
>
> Deryck
>
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