At least three popular Hebrew news websites often fail to add the title field (כותרת) when Visual Editor creates an automatic footnote from them. These sites are makorrishon.co.il, israelhayom.co.il, and news.walla.co.il. It doesn't happen all the time, but I found three URLs where it happens consistently. It happens with many other URLs from these sites.
To reproduce:
- Edit a page in the Hebrew Wikipedia using Visual Editor.
- Add a footnote using the Cite button (הערת שוליים).
- Use the "Automatic" tab (אוטומטית), and try each of these URLs:
Expected: A <ref> is supposed to be added with the template קישור כללי, and the parameter כותרת ("title") is supposed to be filled.
Observed: A <ref> is added with the template קישור כללי, and without the parameter כותרת.
See this page for examples: https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amire80/test-citoid-empty-title
I'm not sure whether it is a bug somewhere in the Citoid/VE/Cite pipeline, or a misconfiguration in the Hebrew Wikipedia. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks! :)
Meta-comments:
- This is somewhat similar to T241293, but maybe the issue is different, and the examples here are, hopefully, more detailed. But if they are the same, feel free to merge them.
- I'm not sure whether the problem is with Citoid, VisualEditor, or Cite, so tagging all of them. Remove what's unnecessary. Thanks!