Last modified: 2010-10-14 01:00:39 UTC
The specific example is http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/view&template=2010_fr_testing2 It has shown 2 versions of 2010_fr_testing2 for a while when I view Special:NoticeTemplate and most recently I was attempting to remove "&{{{target1}}}" from the template through the interface (in the url) but each time I did so it would not fully remove. Once you pressed submit it would show the change in the test field but the variable was still listed in the variables section. When you refreshed the page the text field showed the removed &{{{target}}} as back. I attempted both on my staff account and on User:Jamesofur as well as on 3 browsers (Firefox and IE8 on Windows 7 and Chrome on Linux) without success before attempting to remove it straight via the Mediawiki page with http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-2010_fr_testing2&diff=prev&oldid=2156662 . The change did stick with that edit but I have since tried to make other edits to that template and the same issue occurs (the edit appears to have happened but when the page is refreshed it did not). (putting on the fundraising open issues page as well)
The example banner seems to have been deleted. I've tried to reproduce this problem with other banners, but with no success. Can you provide steps to reproduce this bug?
yea sorry, Last night I ended up running into even more issues with it (I could not change it to anon only, every time we changes the checkboxes it reverted back). I ended up deleting it to try and fix the problem and at the time ran into the issue that the shell still remained making the name still useless and so made a new template. I'm still not sure exactly what caused it so will have to poke around to see if I can think of a way to replicate it. In retrospect I should have just made the new template to use in the test and left the broken one for you :/
Since I can't currently reproduce the bug, I'll mark WORKSFORME for now. Feel free to reopen if you notice the problem again in the future.
