Last modified: 2013-08-30 02:54:45 UTC
If you want to add or edit a template which contains a "." (dot) in it's title the dot and the text after the dot is not displayed. This occured on the mediawiki.org wiki on the page "Manual:Page table" with the template "MW 1.5"
I tried this at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Page_table?veaction=edit When I ask for the template 'MW 1.5', the dropdown of 10 templates is: MW 1.5/pl MW 1.5/zh-hant MW 1.5/vi MW 1.5/de MW 1.5/es MW 1.5/ja MW 1.5/pt-br MW 1 MW 1.5/fr 'MW 1.5' is not in the list of ten! Is that the problem you are seeing?
This is a part of the problem. If you select now "MW 1" from the list and submit the changes, you see that "MW 1" does not exist. Same problem when looking on an existing Template like "MW 1.5" only "MW 1" is displayed in the template manager.
Ah yes, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:MW_1 doesnt exist, but it is in the dropdown list. The same happens on enwp with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WP1.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cc-by-sa-3.0 (not good examples as they arnt used in articles often, but copyright ones sometimes are: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Template%3ACc-by-sa-3.0&namespace=0 ) However this template works properly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_1.0_Navigation So I'm guessing this only happens if the period and digits are at the end of the template name.
This is caused by a bug in core - bug 51308 - which thinks that '.'s in page titles aren't allowed. We're getting it fixed urgently. Sorry for the disruption. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 51308 ***
