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Bugs in "Live preview" feature (tracking)
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Conversion of this tracking task to a project is discussing at T192074

This bug tracks all problems related to the "Live preview" feature that can be enabled in the preferences under "Editing".

RFC (later withdrawn): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Live_preview

URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Live_preview

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I was going to add a bug, but clearly this is just a lack of feature at the moment:

When I use live preview section editing does not list transclusions.

It works fine when I edit anonymously, thus not using live preview, and when I edit whole pages (and occasionally when I've had a page reload, like after an attempted save that failed due to a "loss of session data", but I couldn't get it to work by "forgetting to add an edit summary").

You can see my attempts at determining the problem here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AMarkhurd%2FSandbox&type=revision&diff=664666744&oldid=646644087 (when I thought it was working sometimes).

I note T2878 shows this has been a long-running issue and was "in flux" itself (outside of live preview) as late as May 2014.

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Live preview (requires JavaScript) feature bugs (tracking) to Bugs in WikiEditor's "Live preview" feature (tracking).Feb 14 2017, 1:49 AM
Jdforrester-WMF added a project: WikiEditor.
Jdforrester-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)
Fomafix renamed this task from Bugs in WikiEditor's "Live preview" feature (tracking) to Bugs in "Live preview" feature (tracking).Jul 20 2017, 12:52 PM

I removed "WikiEditor" from task description because live preview is mainly a feature of core and not of the extension WikiEditor. The extension WikiEditor has also a feature live preview which uses also the API from core.

Please consider remaking this into a project, the table with listed tasks is unreadable right now for me and I would guess many others on similar page widths (1366px).

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(there is no possibility to scroll and see the rest of the titles, they are showing up exactly like this, just with ellipses)

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