Active Discussions module title formatting sometimes displays HTML
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Testing the Active Discussions module on English Wikipedia today, I'm seeing raw HTML in the discussion titles of some (but not all) entries in the list:

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Full URL of the first entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#%3Cspan_id=%22Admin_shortage.2C_editor_decline.2C_and_fundraising_pressure_might_be_symptoms_of_the_same_underlying_issue%22_typeof=%22mw:FallbackId%22%3E%3C/span%3EAdmin_shortage,_editor_decline,_and_fundraising_pressure_might_be_symptoms_of_the_same_underlying_issue

Intended URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Admin_shortage,_editor_decline,_and_fundraising_pressure_might_be_symptoms_of_the_same_underlying_issue

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	Active Discussions module title formatting sometimes displays HTML	mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard	master	+44 -2
	Active Discussions module title formatting sometimes displays HTML	mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard	master	+26 -1

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Resolved	• Kgraessle	T421490 Active Discussions module title formatting sometimes displays HTML

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This also shows up as mid-title HTML:

I was QAing on test.wiki and think I figured out why this happens, it seems to be when the title needs URL encoding. You can test this with the following titles:

Test section (displays correctly)
"Test" section (includes HTML)

In T421490#11758111, @Samwalton9-WMF wrote:

This also shows up as mid-title HTML:

In this example the heading has some additional formatting via <s> tags:

Proposal: Extended confirmed <s>protection</s> one-year restriction for Afghanistan ethnicity-related articles

In this case I think we should either render that strikethrough in the Dashboard, or just strip it.

Confirming that adding wiki markup (in this case the title is [[Markup|markup]] section) produces a similar effect:

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Change #1269410 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kgraessle; author: Kgraessle):

[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@master] Active Discussions module title formatting sometimes displays HTML

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1269410

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Change #1269410 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@master] Active Discussions module title formatting sometimes displays HTML

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1269410

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It looks like the display is now good, but selecting a discussion which previously had this issue still sends you to a mangled URL:
e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#%3Cspan_id=%22Presumptive_deletion_for_AI-blocked_users.3F%22_typeof=%22mw:FallbackId%22%3E%3C/span%3EPresumptive_deletion_for_AI-blocked_users? instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Presumptive_deletion_for_AI-blocked_users?

• Kgraessle moved this task from Ready to In Progress on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Apr 17 2026, 9:44 AM

Change #1273701 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kgraessle; author: Kgraessle):

[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@master] Active Discussions module title formatting sometimes displays HTML

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1273701

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 17 2026, 9:57 AM

In T421490#11832660, @Samwalton9-WMF wrote:

It looks like the display is now good, but selecting a discussion which previously had this issue still sends you to a mangled URL:
e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#%3Cspan_id=%22Presumptive_deletion_for_AI-blocked_users.3F%22_typeof=%22mw:FallbackId%22%3E%3C/span%3EPresumptive_deletion_for_AI-blocked_users? instead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Presumptive_deletion_for_AI-blocked_users?

Nice catch, this will be fixed in the latest patch.

• Kgraessle moved this task from In Progress to Eng review on the Moderator-Tools-Team (Kanban) board.Apr 17 2026, 9:59 AM

Change #1273701 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/PersonalDashboard@master] Active Discussions module title formatting sometimes displays HTML

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1273701

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