Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:33:45 UTC
Currently, MediaWiki's parser.php contains the special function magicRFC(), which transforms raw text containing 'RFC' followed by a number into a link specified by MediaWiki:Rfcurl. This complicates parsing for a relatively rare case, and should be removed. The functionality could be replaced by the existing RFC InterWiki map entry. This would require a substitution script to be run across existing databases to update current links.
Here's an example at the English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFC_3377 In case someone changes the page, here's the relevant part (called by the template {{Compu-network-stub}}): ''This [[computer network]]-related article is a [[Wikipedia:Perfect stub article|stub]]. [[Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub|Help]] Wikipedia by [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}|action=edit}} expanding it]'' Since RFC's are autolinked, this is rendered on-screen like this: This computer network-related article is a stub. Help Wikipedia by RFC 3377&action=edit">expanding it. The text "RFC 3777" is linked to: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RFC_3377&action=edit and so actually works (in Windows Firefox 1.0 and IE 5.5, anyway), but a check of the HTML source reveals a little more about what's happening: by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=RFC_3377&action=edit" class='external' title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=<ahref='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3377.txt' class='external' title=">RFC 3377</a>&action=edit">expanding it I hope that gets displayed correctly when I save this comment! Anyway, the software is still trying to autolink the RFC to the page at ietf.org, as it would if you just had the string "RFC 3377" in running text. But obviously it shouldn't be doing that since it's inside of a URL.
Note: As far as I can tell, the HTML source shown above is correct.
ISBN passages are also highlighted. Generaly software shouldn't be to intelligent here, as it can complicate text editing. Could be integrated with some thing a la {{isbn|...}}.
*** Bug 3415 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #1) >... > Since RFC's are autolinked, this is rendered on-screen like this: > > This computer network-related article is a stub. Help Wikipedia by > RFC 3377&action=edit">expanding it. >... This problem has been reported as bug 3415.
This bug also surfaces when one tries to force a single-bracket out-link around an RFC NNNN text string: the result is a null-text link pointing to the specified site, followed by the magic link as usual. EG: [http://baylink.pitas.com RFC 2100] The required workaround is currently [http://baylink.pitas.com <nowiki>RFC 2100</nowiki>]; thanks to robchurch@IRC for suggesting it. This is indeed a low priority bug, but if anyone's crawling around inside the parser... :-) But it's not an RFE; it's a bug. Changing severity.
(In reply to comment #6) > but if anyone's crawling around inside the parser... ...then I pity their eternal soul ;-)
Created attachment 2231 [details] Parser test cases It looks like Tim Starling fixed the problems in r15976. Here are a couple of parser test cases for this and bug 3415 (both pass).
