#microformats 2020-08-28

2020-08-28 UTC
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[tantek]
wow discovered that that bot screwed up some pages that were never fixed 😕
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tantek
edited /m2 (-1) "r--"
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tantek
edited /Tantek_Çelik (+0) "resave pre-bot version"
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tantek
edited /use (+2069) "resave pre-bot/pre-deletion version, different enough from get-started to be worth a simple update"
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[tantek]
wow I REALLY dislike the "replace the linked page with the linked page extracted title" thing
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[tantek]
it is confusing as heck and badly cached by Mediawiki
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[tantek]
going to undo all that bots changes because I can't trust it and trust the human editors before the bot much more
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[tantek]
is this because of the DISPLAYTITLE thingie that was used to replace <entry-title>? aaronpk?
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tantek
edited /item-license (-45) "drop entry-title thing"
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tantek
edited /h-card (-24) "drop DISPLAYTITLE thing, seems redundant (and confusing for redirects, fragment links etc.)"
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aaronpk
I'm not sure what you are asking
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[tantek]
many pages used to use the <entry-title> MediaWiki extension in order to change the h1 title at the top of the page from the MediaWiki default
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[tantek]
as part of the server transfer/upgrades it looks like those were all changed to a {{DISPLAYTITLE:thing}} format
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aaronpk
I had Loqi go thru and replace any uses of that with the displaytitle version
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[tantek]
that appears to have the additional side-effect of changing the appearance of pages that *link* to thing
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[tantek]
which is kinda horrible
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aaronpk
what how
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[tantek]
and broke all sorts of linktext
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[tantek]
let's say you have page /wiki/thing-thing
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[tantek]
and on it you put {{DISPLAYTITLE:Thing Thing}}
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[tantek]
now every link to [[thing-thing]] will display as Thing Thing
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aaronpk
isn't that good?
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[tantek]
seems fine and maybe even convenient, EXCEPT it totally screws up fragment links
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[tantek]
like REALLY badly
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[tantek]
e.g. let's say you have a link to [[thing-thing#FAQ|Thing FAQ]]
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[tantek]
oops now that link ALSO displays as Thing Thing
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aaronpk
thats... that seems like mediawiki is doing something wrong there
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[tantek]
and we have LOTS of deep fragment links like that
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aaronpk
the text after the | is always what is supposed to show as the link text
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[tantek]
nope it gets overridden by the DISPLAYTITLE thingie
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[tantek]
that's the problem
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aaronpk
sounds like a bug, let's check if there is a fix in MW
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[tantek]
ok cool I'll stop trying to manually fix
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[tantek]
other things I need to focus on 😕
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