| Danny_B | |
| Mar 4 2012, 2:11 PM |
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| Feb 26 2021, 10:45 PM |
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| Feb 26 2021, 10:45 PM |
Typical article using {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} has that function on the first line, then line wrap and then infobox or start of the text.
Currently that creates empty paragraph on output -> the article content starts further down from headline than regular articles do.
Version: 1.18.x
Severity: normal
I'm pretty sure that if we changed this we would see a lot of complaints as soon as it was deployed.
You should definitely change the behaviour to *not* add blank lines.
I've seen many articles on Wikipedia with ugly excessive vertical space after page title due to this error. Common templates (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Lowercase) even work around this issue by including the {{DISPLAYTITLE:}} template in a <span></span>.
I can't think of any case were newlines at the beginning of the page are actually needed so I can't imagine you'll break anything or receive any complaints.
I think it would be good to revisit this a bit, maybe see if things have changed in the last 9 years.
I've hit this on ro.wiki and investigated. Turns out that the behavior is still present in some wikis, but not in en.wiki. You can use the following minimal test case:
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''{{PAGENAME}}''}}
{{taxobox}}
Lorem ipsumOn ro.wiki there is a visible empty line, while on en.wiki there isn't.
The worse is that you mileage might vary even on the same site. Compare the code above with
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''{{PAGENAME}}''}}
{{Infocaseta Monument}}
Lorem ipsumThe second snippet does not generate an empty line on either project.