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DISPLAYTITLE not working for wishes (Community Wishlist)
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue:

  • Create a new wish on the Community Wishlist or edit an existing one.
  • Try to apply some formatting to the wish title using the DISPLAYTITLE magic word (for example {{DISPLAYTITLE:''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''}} to make it cursive).

What happens?:

DISPLAYTITLE does nothing.

What should have happened instead?:

DISPLAYTITLE works as intended.

Other information:

Copying a comment on this by @MusikAnimal on Talk:Community Wishlist:

The extension itself sets the display title (hence why we are able to have the wish title there), so I'm not sure it's possible to override it. For your case, I would just recommend putting quotations around "In other projects" to give it emphasis. Merging a display title defined in the wikitext with our own may be possible, but my guess is it's likely not worth the code complexity.

Still bringing this here as I believe more discussion might be useful. Feel free to close otherwise.

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itsmoon renamed this task from DISPLAYTITLE not working for wishes to DISPLAYTITLE not working for wishes (Community Wishlist).Nov 6 2025, 11:29 AM

Display titles aren't a thing for wishes and focus areas, I'm afraid.

Even if it did work, {{DISPLAYTITLE:''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''}} would produce i.e. Community Wishlist/W123 in italics, not the wish title.

We have patch that's (hopefully) going live next week that should make this more understandable. All wiki markup in titles will be escaped. Combined with previewing (T406711), we'll hopefully then be in a good place.

I'm going to decline as I believe we can't support both DISPLAYTITLE and also our own display title system.