<translate> in front of section header confuses section editing
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	AxelBoldt
	Dec 24 2013, 7:25 PM

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In https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_administration#Markup_examples
we see the following markup example as a correct example:

<translate>== Culture ==</translate>

However this markup will confuse the section editing feature.

For example, if an article contains the following wikitext

First section

text

<translate>==Second section==</translate>
text2

Third section

text3

and we click on the "edit source" link next to "Second section", we will get an edit box containing the third section.

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Severity: normal

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Reference: bz58946

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Mentioned In: T294642: Publishing in Section Translation is prevented with a "There is no section X" error message

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 2:25 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-Translate.

• bzimport set Reference to bz58946.

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AxelBoldt created this task.Dec 24 2013, 7:25 PM

It might be because adding tags next to section headers causes MediaWiki to think these are no longer editable sections. For example at https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/G87172 if you click "edit source" next to section header "Hi" you will receive an error message.

I guess the documentation should be updated to remote the "correct" section for that part.

@Niklas: I hope this bug will be fixed :)?

I have updated the documentation to discourage <translate>== Header ==</translate>. While it would be nice to support that as well, I do not see that happening until we do major changes with page translation (to support Visual Editor for example).

Reopen: the edit was reverted by @Shirayuki. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_administration&diff=1272704&oldid=1272616

• Elitre subscribed.Jan 2 2015, 10:07 AM

In T60946#951836, @Nemo_bis wrote:

Reopen: the edit was reverted by @Shirayuki. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_administration&diff=1272704&oldid=1272616

Restored: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help%3AExtension%3ATranslate%2FPage_translation_administration&diff=1346620&oldid=1325763

cscott mentioned this in T294642: Publishing in Section Translation is prevented with a "There is no section X" error message.Dec 17 2021, 7:01 PM

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