Author: paul
Description:
When the same macro is transcluded into a page more than once - even where the
uses of each transclusion have different arguments - sometimes the page fails,
inexplicably. Look at the page for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Wisconsin (List of counties in
Wisconsin), which uses the County1 template for every entry. This is done to
make the internal page "cleaner" since the information in each entry in the
table is the same, it makes sense to use a template call to generate each record
in the table. However, after the same macro is called about 15 times, for some
reason the page renderer partially fails and doesn't reneder all of the macro.
After it partially fails a couple of times, then it completely "forgets" the
macro exists, and presumes that the macro is missing, it can no longer see it
again. Even changing the macro call to prefix it with :Template: does not fix
the problem, it still thinks the template is in the main name space.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Wisconsin