Last modified: 2014-07-30 15:46:45 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #68297 +++ On mediawiki.org, there is a family on fancy templates like [[mw:Template:MW 1.23]] that generate a right-floated MediaWiki version number in a frame. These templates generate a wikitext table (starting with '{|'), which means that due to bug 529 / bug 12974 a newline is prepended before it. This behavior is incredibly annoying in practice, but it seems that we're very much wedded to it because it made Parsoid people's lives easier. However, Parsoid rendering of this particular template is inconsistent with PHP. On [[mw:Manual:Skinning#Localisation_messages]], PHP generates an empty paragraph before the table, while Parsoid doesn't and produces an about-grouped pair of <span>\n</span><table>…</table> (the span tag only contains the prepended newline). This rendering, that looks good in Parsoid/VisualEditor, therefore looks like crap in PHP parser. Note that the <span> is not nested in a <p> or any other block-level element, it just sits there right in the <body>. (It is not visible since, as I mentioned, it just contains some whitespace.)
