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ref showing as html entities ("[1]" shown as "[1]") (due to broken Link_Attributes extension)
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ProductVersion
MediaWiki1.35.0
PHP7.4.13 (apache2handler)
MariaDB10.1.47-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ICU65.1
Lua5.1.5
ExtensionVersion
Cite(98efd80) 11:28, 13 July 2020

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Aklapper changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Dec 4 2020, 10:40 AM

Hi @WikiDrNet2, thanks for taking the time to report this and welcome to Wikimedia Phabricator!

Unfortunately this task lacks some information. If you can still reproduce: Please add a more complete description to this task. That should be

  • a clear and complete list of exact steps to reproduce the situation, step by step, so that nobody needs to guess or interpret how you performed each step,
  • what happens after performing these steps to reproduce,
  • what you expected to happen instead,
  • a full link to a web address where the issue can be seen.

In some situations it can also be helpful to know if you see the same behavior when you are not logged in, and your exact MediaWiki version (if it is not on a Wikimedia website) which is shown on Special:Version, and your exact PHP version, etc.

You can edit the task description by clicking Edit Task. Ideally, a good description should allow any other person to follow these steps (without having to interpret steps) and see the same results. Problems that others can reproduce can get fixed faster. Thanks again!

Izno changed the task status from Stalled to Open.Dec 15 2020, 5:48 PM
Izno moved this task from Unsorted backlog to Defect backlog on the Cite board.
Aklapper renamed this task from ref showing as html entities to ref showing as html entities ("[1]" shown as "[1]").Dec 15 2020, 7:40 PM
Aklapper changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Dec 15 2020, 7:47 PM

I cannot find any such issue on that page.

However it looks like the site has general issues with parsing tags, e.g. https://wikidr.net/index.php?title=Dr._Carolyn_Borrow_MD_St._Paul_MN&action=history displays <bdi>Wikiadmin</bdi> for the Wikiadmin user account. Have you brought this up in a support forum to make sure that this is actually a bug in source code, and not a misconfiguration on your server?

@Aklapper,
Apologies, I was doing cleanup into the wee hours last night and removed it, I reverted the changes for you to view.

Question:
Do you think that the bdi issue and the html-entity issue are related, if so where could I begin looking to resolve this on my end?

I imagine a bigger underlying issues with interpreting entities here and would recommend to bring it up on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk

I don't believe there is a bug in any Cite code leading to this, but rather in some underlying configuration (which makes this a support ticket instead)...

Aklapper renamed this task from ref showing as html entities ("[1]" shown as "&#91;1&#93;") to ref showing as html entities ("[1]" shown as "&#91;1&#93;") (due to broken Link_Attributes extension).Dec 17 2020, 6:20 PM