Maniphest T59886

Support special page transclusion
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Description

We currently don't support transclusions of special pages like this:

{{Special:Recentchanges}}

As special pages emit HTML and are only rendered by action=parse it might make sense to handle them as pseudo extension tags.

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Severity: normal

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Reference: bz57886

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Bump wikimedia/parsoid to 0.19.0-a14	mediawiki/vendor	master	+358 -113
	Support special page transclusions	mediawiki/services/parsoid	master	+56 -29
	[WIP] Introduce a DataAccess::getSpecialPageOutput	mediawiki/services/parsoid	master	+46 -5

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Open		None	T183340 Special:RelatedChanges is shown as a template on the visual editor
		Resolved		Arlolra	T59886 Support special page transclusion

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:40 AM

• bzimport added a project: Parsoid.

• bzimport set Reference to bz57886.

• GWicke created this task.Dec 2 2013, 9:12 PM

Arlolra removed • GWicke as the assignee of this task.Nov 25 2014, 7:58 PM

Arlolra set Security to None.

ssastry moved this task from Needs Triage to Read Views on the Parsoid board.Jan 11 2018, 9:50 PM

ssastry merged a task: T149447: Parsoid doesn't handle transclusions from the Special: namespace.Jan 11 2018, 9:52 PM

ssastry added subscribers: Urbanecm, Dbrant, Aklapper.

Krinkle unsubscribed.Jan 12 2018, 10:48 PM

Reedy edited projects, added Parsoid-Read-Views-Deprecated-Project; removed Parsoid.Sep 17 2018, 7:25 PM

ssastry moved this task from Uncategorized to Missing functionality on the Parsoid-Read-Views-Deprecated-Project board.Sep 20 2018, 3:42 PM

matmarex added a parent task: T183340: Special:RelatedChanges is shown as a template on the visual editor.Oct 18 2018, 12:36 AM

Aklapper edited projects, added Parsoid; removed Parsoid-Read-Views-Deprecated-Project.Feb 29 2020, 5:14 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Liuxinyu970226. · View Herald TranscriptFeb 29 2020, 5:14 PM

Aklapper added a project: Parsoid-Rendering.Feb 29 2020, 6:14 PM

ssastry moved this task from Read Views to Missing Functionality on the Parsoid board.Feb 29 2020, 6:18 PM

@ssastry Team to talk about this before prioritizing

MBinder_WMF moved this task from Missing Functionality to Needs Investigation on the Parsoid board.Jul 16 2020, 6:23 PM

Arlolra moved this task from Needs Investigation to Needs Triage on the Parsoid board.Mar 24 2021, 10:53 PM

Arlolra moved this task from Needs Triage to Missing Functionality on the Parsoid board.Apr 1 2021, 6:43 PM

ssastry added a project: Parsoid-Read-Views (Phase 1 - DiscussionTools support).Sep 29 2021, 10:16 PM

ssastry removed a subscriber: • GWicke.

ssastry edited projects, added Parsoid-Read-Views (Phase 2 - testwiki Main namespace support); removed Parsoid-Read-Views (Phase 1 - DiscussionTools support).Jan 26 2022, 8:07 PM

This might have been magically fixed by the port to PHP?

Arlolra claimed this task.Jan 16 2024, 4:04 PM

Arlolra added a project: Content-Transform-Team-WIP.

Change 991098 had a related patch set uploaded (by Arlolra; author: Arlolra):

[mediawiki/services/parsoid@master] [WIP] Support special page transclusions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/991098

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 17 2024, 12:02 AM

MBinder_WMF unsubscribed.Jan 18 2024, 6:55 PM

Change 991437 had a related patch set uploaded (by Arlolra; author: Arlolra):

[mediawiki/services/parsoid@master] [WIP] Introduce a DataAccess::getSpecialPageOutput

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/991437

Change 991098 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/services/parsoid@master] Support special page transclusions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/991098

Arlolra moved this task from Backlog to To Deploy on the Content-Transform-Team-WIP board.Jan 19 2024, 8:06 PM

Arlolra moved this task from Backlog to To Deploy on the Parsoid-Read-Views (Phase 2 - testwiki Main namespace support) board.

Change 992095 had a related patch set uploaded (by Isabelle Hurbain-Palatin; author: Isabelle Hurbain-Palatin):

[mediawiki/vendor@master] Bump wikimedia/parsoid to 0.19.0-a14

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/992095

Change 992095 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/vendor@master] Bump wikimedia/parsoid to 0.19.0-a14

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/992095

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.15; 2024-01-23).Jan 22 2024, 6:00 PM

This enhancement has caused Linter "span wrapping div" errors in pages transcluding some Special pages. See T275230 and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)&oldid=1199067000#Possible_WP:ITSTHURSDAY_change_causing_Linter_errors

Arlolra moved this task from To Deploy to To Verify on the Content-Transform-Team-WIP board.Jan 25 2024, 11:33 PM

Arlolra moved this task from To Deploy to To Verify on the Parsoid-Read-Views (Phase 2 - testwiki Main namespace support) board.

Special page transclusions are now supported,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jonesey95/sandbox&oldid=1199013916&useparsoid=1

This enhancement has caused Linter "span wrapping div" errors in pages transcluding some Special pages

It exposed the errors by linting transcluded special pages for the first time. T275230 is now resolved and will be deployed during next week's train.

Arlolra mentioned this in T356718: Support nested special page transclusion?.Feb 6 2024, 12:24 AM