Last modified: 2013-04-08 11:02:08 UTC
Deleted pages beginning with asterisks (*) don't render properly; * is inappropriately converted to bullets, breaking the links and layout. Example page: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=*_Scrapper&redirect=no&rcid=437086872 Possibly related to 12974.
Not related to the page being deleted. It has to do with en.wikipedia's local [[MediaWiki:Newpagetext]] and the like. They contain {{PAGENAME}} (which, when returning *, on a new line) starts a list. {{PAGENAME}} should either escape * like it escapes ' to '. Or the parser should tried it with <nowiki> (like some wikis do now by working around with {{#tag:nowiki|{{PAGENAME}}}}
This is a dupe of something else and was fixed a while back (Should be able to see the fix in the 1.18 release).
<rant> OMG! Instead of finally fixing bug 12974, we’ll keep adding more and more workarounds, breaking more stuff in the process… So, now that we patched asterisks in {{PAGENAME}}, code like “{{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|*A|We are on *A|We are somewhere else}}” does not work <http://jdem.cz/k9yn4>. And we still did not fix code like 7{{#if:{{multiply}}|*|+}}3 <http://jdem.cz/k9yp8>. </rant> (In reply to comment #2) The fix is r80511, this being ±a duplicate of bug 26781.
(In reply to comment #3) > <rant> > OMG! Instead of finally fixing bug 12974, we’ll keep adding more and more > workarounds, breaking more stuff in the process… > > So, now that we patched asterisks in {{PAGENAME}}, code like > “{{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|*A|We are on *A|We are somewhere else}}” does not work > <http://jdem.cz/k9yn4>. And we still did not fix code like > 7{{#if:{{multiply}}|*|+}}3 <http://jdem.cz/k9yp8>. > </rant> > > (In reply to comment #2) > The fix is r80511, this being ±a duplicate of bug 26781. Clearly the solution is to not have programming constructs in wiki-syntax :P. (or just do {{#ifeq:{{PAGENAME}}|*A|yes|no}} )
(from BugTriage of Mon, April 18 2011) > http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28588: Escape asterisks (*) in {{PAGENAME}} > Template problem or parser? Parser. > Source is en.wiki's [[MediaWiki:Newarticletext]] which uses {{PAGENAME}} and > puts * into wiki markup (list item) > We should escape this like we do with ' and " (to avoid '''{{PAGENAME}}''' > going crazy if title contains ''') ? > Or, internally "<nowiki>"-fy it. Workaround on some wikis is > {{#tag:nowiki|{{PAGENAME}}}} parser bug has been around forever newparser
