At the moment, we use a copy-and-pasted version of two libraries to convert wikitext into HTML and then make a preview out of that. However, action=parse (called with section=0) already gets the HTML of the first section; we only need to trim it down to size and remove infoboxes, etc.
This would reduce the size of popups considerably and quite possibly result in a noticeable speed improvement, since the HTML is cached serverside.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T152639 Navigation Popup text rendering problem: String not shown in preview if string is a template | |||
| Open | None | T139902 Extraneous apostrophes break formatting | |||
| Open | None | T138903 Obey <includeonly> and <noinclude> for template previews | |||
| Open | None | T138900 Popups should show redlinks | |||
| Open | None | T187064 Navigation popups ignores bad image list | |||
| Open | None | T138803 Use action=parse to get previews |
Note that Page-Previews now uses another REST api for it's summaries, that possibly should be considered as an alternative to action=parse.