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Bug 885 - Silent insertion of code by the parser


Summary:	Silent insertion of code by the parser

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Page editing (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Lowest minor with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

URL:	http://test.leuksman.com/index.php/Bu...
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Duplicates:	3275 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2004-11-15 12:05 UTC by lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט
Modified:	2006-06-01 19:44 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2004-11-15 12:05:19 UTC

As I could see that the code of an object (article, talk, 
category ...) maight be altered / changed "automaticaly" during 
save. (I assume it is the parser module making a syntax 
verification.)

It maight be, that the insertion of code (</nowiki> ...) would 
not be, what was intended by the user.

No message is displayed and it is just another "have to know". In 
similar situations I would expect a warning (as done at a 
[[:en:Wikipedia:Edit conflicts]] / [[m:Help:Edit conflict]]).

Regards Reinhardt

Comment 1 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2004-11-19 10:42:27 UTC

At http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Gangleri/tests#endless_posibilities a different 
behaviour as mentioned before is experienced.

Regards Reinhardt

Comment 2 Brion Vibber 2004-11-19 11:47:46 UTC

Please provide an exact series of steps to reproduce the 
problem, including explanations of what, exactly, you 
expected to happen and what, exactly, you found instead.

Comment 3 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2005-06-11 00:04:18 UTC

old test case http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gangleri/tests/nowiki removed
provided new test case at http://test.leuksman.com/index.php/Bugzilla_0885

description

If a page contains a "<nowiki>" which is not closed (with a "</nowiki>") then
"</nowiki>" will be added automatically during save

1. either to the end of the page
2. or to the end of the section. 

I called this "silent insertion" because no warning is generated.

Remark: Preview will not show this final "<nowiki>".

Regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]

Comment 4 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2005-10-08 16:05:06 UTC

see bug 3275: Show warning about missing </gallery>

Comment 5 Brion Vibber 2005-10-29 07:17:13 UTC

*** Bug 3275 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2006-04-06 10:49:01 UTC

If a page contains a starting <pre> without a closing </pre> the last will be
inserted by the parser during save.

See
http://test.leuksman.com/view/User_talk:195.148.193.2#MediaZilla:00885_.2F_bugzilla:00885

Comment 7 Brion Vibber 2006-04-06 21:26:47 UTC

Not a bug, that's just how it works.

Comment 8 Eugene Zelenko 2006-04-08 13:58:41 UTC

Unfortunately the way how it works is not perfect.

Any kind of warning in this situation will be good idea.

Please do not close this issue just because somebody does not haw time to
improve software.

Comment 9 Brion Vibber 2006-06-01 19:44:31 UTC

Fixed in r14530.

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