Maniphest T417606

Watchlist labels not escaped on Special:Watchlist
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	Samwilson
	Feb 17 2026, 1:49 AM

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	F72495515: escaped_swatchlist.png
	Mar 4 2026, 9:21 AM

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Description

Create a label such as <strong>Lorem</strong>
Note that it displays correctly in the Special:WatchlistLabels table
Assign it to a page on your watchlist
Edit that page (to ensure it appears on your watchlist)
Open Special:Watchlist
Note that 'Lorem' is shown in bold, instead of the full escaped HTML.

It is parsing the label as wikitext.

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Escape watchlist labels on Special:Watchlist	Samwilson	mediawiki/core	master	+1 -1

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T415489: HTML entities are double-escaped in watchlist filters

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Samwilson created this task.Feb 17 2026, 1:49 AM

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Change #1239803 had a related patch set uploaded (by Samwilson; author: Samwilson):

[mediawiki/core@master] Escape watchlist labels on Special:Watchlist

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1239803

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Feb 17 2026, 1:53 AM

Samwilson moved this task from Ready for Dev to Feedback and Review on the Community-Tech (Fox Squad) board.Feb 17 2026, 1:58 AM

Samwilson moved this task from Backlog to Filtering by label(s) on the Watchlist-Labels board.Feb 17 2026, 5:03 AM

Bugreporter2 awarded a token.Feb 17 2026, 6:57 AM

dom_walden mentioned this in T415489: HTML entities are double-escaped in watchlist filters.Feb 17 2026, 11:21 AM

Samwilson moved this task from Feedback and Review to In Development on the Community-Tech (Fox Squad) board.Feb 23 2026, 6:18 AM

Samwilson moved this task from In Development to Feedback and Review on the Community-Tech (Fox Squad) board.Feb 24 2026, 2:06 AM

Change #1239803 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Escape watchlist labels on Special:Watchlist

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1239803

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.19; 2026-03-10).Mar 3 2026, 4:00 PM

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 3 2026, 4:31 PM

Samwilson moved this task from Feedback and Review to QA on the Community-Tech (Fox Squad) board.Mar 4 2026, 1:26 AM

I see watchlist labels being escaped in Special:Watchlist. The labels match how they look in Special:WatchlistLabels.

escaped_swatchlist.png (1,079×459 px, 185 KB)