HTML comments inside galleries cause images not to be rendered
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	• bzimport
	Oct 20 2008, 11:29 PM

Description

Author: bugs

Description:
This doesn't work:

<gallery>
Image:foo.jpg <-- image taken from www.source.com -->
</gallery>

Seems useful and should work.

Version: 1.20.x
Severity: minor

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Reference: bz16057

	Project	Branch	Lines +/-	Subject
	mediawiki/core	master	+4 -0	parser: Strip off HTML comments from/beside image name

Customize query in gerrit

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:16 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Parser.

• bzimport set Reference to bz16057.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Oct 20 2008, 11:29 PM

Try:

<gallery>
Image:foo.jpg| 
</gallery>

Notice the vertical bar/pipe (|) and the exclamation mark (!).

bugs wrote:

Interesting - that's sort of a workaround, in that you're specifying a blank caption. It still seems like some kind of bug/limitation (is there anywhere else that  aren't allowed?) but not severe.

Tgr added a parent task: T93407: [DO NOT USE] <gallery> issues (tracking) [superseded by #MediaWiki-Gallery].Mar 20 2015, 8:12 PM

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: MediaWiki-Gallery.Sep 14 2015, 11:12 PM

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Jdforrester-WMF removed a parent task: T93407: [DO NOT USE] <gallery> issues (tracking) [superseded by #MediaWiki-Gallery].Sep 14 2015, 11:12 PM

MBinder_WMF added a project: Multimedia.Aug 7 2017, 5:54 PM

• Ramsey-WMF moved this task from Untriaged to Backlog on the Multimedia board.Nov 28 2017, 8:49 PM

Change 532249 had a related patch set uploaded (by D3r1ck01; owner: Derick Alangi):
[mediawiki/core@master] parser: Strip off HTML comments from/beside image name

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/532249

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 25 2019, 4:32 PM

Krinkle edited projects, added Parsing-Team--ARCHIVED; removed Multimedia.Aug 25 2019, 4:57 PM

Krinkle removed a subscriber: • wikibugs-l-list.

Change 532249 abandoned by D3r1ck01:
parser: Strip off HTML comments from/beside image name

Reason:
Per discussion with Krinkle

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/532249

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 26 2019, 10:10 AM

• Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to Gallery slideshow: 2.0 on the MediaWiki-Gallery board.Feb 10 2023, 8:45 PM