Last modified: 2006-02-26 02:28:47 UTC
A recent change to MediaWiki seems to have caused a problem where the first argument to a template was left blank. I am failing to duplicate this with other examples (so can't really determine this properly), but a template with a commonly-blank first argument is [[Template:Bibleverse]]. Until now, its first argument is a bible book number, which most don't have, so {{bibleverse||Psalms|23:2|}} would've been valid usage. It used to show an external link labelled "Psalms 23:2". Now, although the template has not been changed, it shows as if the code produced by inserting the template has not been processed by mediawiki. That is, it shows as [http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=% 20Psalms&verse=23:2&src= Psalms 23:2] rather than just a link. See for instance [http://en.wikipedia.org/ w/index.php?title=Ten_Commandments&oldid=40883747]. Because changing this to {{bibleverse|Psalms||23:2|}} does not change the result of the template, this is how the bug has been worked around on affected pages, but this is template-specific.
This was broken on February 22, apparently due to a misinterpretation of what one of our parser tests meant. I've reverted the bogus "fix".
