Last modified: 2011-02-08 21:56:30 UTC
I noticed this at wikipedia with MediaWiki:Uploadtext & Special:Upload but other Special pages may be affected too. When i set at the message <nowiki>{{template}}</nowiki>, (showing ok at the normal rendering) the special page renders it as _including_ it and then treating it as nowiki, instead of nowikiing the template name. Thus the internal template code was shown on the page, including tags as <noinclude> and <includeonly>. This can be workarounded using <nowiki>{{</nowiki>template<nowiki>}}</nowiki>.
*** Bug 5255 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 5742 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I still seeing this in MediaWiki 1.9alpha (r17555). For me, not only MediaWiki:Uploadtext, but I tried it on MediaWiki:Newimages. Could it just be the whole MediaWiki namespace?
Yes and no. The problem is due to the handling we use for wikitext messages (I've explained it better in another bug here), and will have to be addressed on a message-per-message basis, unless we do something drastic.
Is this still an open issue?
Seems fixed.