philinje wrote:

This line spacing problem is no longer present in the app but still appears on the mobile site.

philinje wrote:

This is now appearing in the apps and the site, on both Android and iOS.

The page today does not have this problem. Yesterday the problem was caused by the featured article paragraph not being a paragraph (an html p element) but an html div element

div's only get increased line spacing if they have the id featured_article

Thus I believe this was a problem which lies with the content editors.

philinje wrote:

Hmm, is Featured Article formatted automatically by Wikitext? It seems strange that a paragraph tag would be absent when that seems to be an automatic function of wikitext.

Where does the featured article get pulled from (apologies for my lack of knowledge)? Would be good to check the history to see what happened here to make it a div.

It gets pulled from here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article

And here if you want to be hyper specific - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_4,_2012

Thanks the hyper specific one was what I wanted! :P
Looking at the days the problem was reported they both [1,2] seem to be rendering as paragraphs... so I'm a bit stumped

Yet I remember seeing it on the 3rd late in the evening and seeing that it was rendering in a DIV instead. Can we keep an eye on this and report when it happens again? It's possibly a wikitext / template rendering issue.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/January_11,_2012#_
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/April_3,_2012