Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:06:52 UTC
On that page, the wikimarkup: <nowiki> [[Image:Trial by Jury - Chaos in the Courtroom.png|thumb|250px|'''Original''' - ''[[Trial by Jury]]'' premièred on 25 March 1875, and was a huge hit, praised by critics, and met with "almost boisterous hilarity" from its audiences. While [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] had collaborated once before, on the Christmas entertainment ''[[Thespis (opera)]]'' (now lost), ''Trial'' introduced many features, such as the autobiographical [[patter song]], that would define their style. This engraving by D. H. Friston dates from ''Trial'''s original run, and was published in the ''Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News'' on 1 May 1875.]]</nowiki> The caption of which should be parsed as: '''Original''' - ''[[Trial by Jury]]'' premièred... Instead parses as '<!-- -->''Original''' - ''[[Trial by Jury]]'' premièred... It may be that the later typo, <nowiki>''Trial'''s</nowiki> (meant to be <nowiki>''Trial<!-- -->'s throws the software off, but it still disobeys the law of least surprise.
I apologise, I thought that would be wiki-processed. Here it is again. On that page, the following bit of code: [[Image:Trial by Jury - Chaos in the Courtroom.png|thumb|250px|'''Original''' - ''[[Trial by Jury]]'' premièred on 25 March 1875, and was a huge hit, praised by critics, and met with "almost boisterous hilarity" from its audiences. While [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] had collaborated once before, on the Christmas entertainment ''[[Thespis (opera)]]'' (now lost), ''Trial'' introduced many features, such as the autobiographical [[patter song]], that would define their style. This engraving by D. H. Friston dates from ''Trial'''s original run, and was published in the ''Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News'' on 1 May 1875.]]</nowiki> The caption of which should be parsed as (using HTML markup): <b>Original</b> - <i>[[Trial by Jury]]</i> premièred... Instead parses as '<i>Original<b> - </i>[[Trial by Jury]]<i> premièred... It may be that the later typo, ''Trial'''s (meant to be ''Trial<!-- -->'s throws the software off, but it still disobeys the law of least surprise. Testing, I find that any code of the pattern '''A''' B ''C'' D ''E''' will duplicate this bug, which may mean that it is unavoidable without breaking clean handling of other complex situations.
Confirmed on the case '''A''' B ''C'' D ''E'''. I would expect that to be rendered: <b>A</b> B <i>C</i> D <i>E</i>' The original use care appears fixed though. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Siebrand/test Assigned to Tim.
This is known and stable behaviour, and is included in passing parser tests. No doubt many pages rely on it.
