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Bug 20574 - Semi-colon messes up text
Semi-colon messes up text
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 12974
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Parser (Other open bugs)
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: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2009-09-10 01:58 UTC by Daedalus969
Modified: 2009-09-10 05:07 UTC (History)
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Description Daedalus969 2009-09-10 01:58:25 UTC 
The semicolon, inserted in wikilinks messes up the surrounding text, as it bolds it and discounts the semicolon.  It should only do this when it is obviously used for a title, otherwise it messes up templates, like the one linked, when a signature contains a semicolon.  Alternatively, one could try disallowing it's usage in signatures.
Comment 1 Splarka 2009-09-10 05:07:10 UTC 
This is happening because of (simplified) {{ucfirst:{{{1}}}}}, this causes a parser function to start a line with a formatting character (semicolon in example given). This is bug 12974 (duping).

The particular template in question uses ucfirst several places unnecessarily (and the one necessary place is in a category link, and there is a work around: {{ucfirst: {{{1}}}}}). I'll ask a sysop to fixit.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12974 ***
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