Last modified: 2009-08-25 22:51:28 UTC
Any use of a <ref> tag inside a {{formatnum:}} seems to result in a UNIQ marker getting dumped into the final output. Specifically, I am looking at an enwiki article[1]. An infobox on the page[2] formats one variable using formatnum, and in this case the variable includes a ref tag (which in turn includes a citation template[3]). As best as I can tell, the only steps necessary to reproduce this are to use any formatnum with any ref. I specifically tested this with {{formatnum:<ref>Hi</ref>}} if that helps any. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bettendorf%2C_Iowa&oldid=225101322 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Settlement [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web
You cannot user <tags> inside formatnum, but the way it currently fails is probably not the best either.
It may be possible to use {{#tag:}} to force correct parsing order.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2257 ***