Last modified: 2014-08-27 18:35:17 UTC
This mess: [[Help:Installing Japanese character sets|<span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="color: #00e; font: bold 80% sans-serif; text-decoration: none; padding: 0 .1em;">?</span>]]) [[Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text]] was added in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31216768&diff=621842944&oldid=600210359 to produce this: ;Track & road events<ref name="JAAF20120611">[http://www.jaaf.or.jp/fan/news/2012/20120611.html {{Nihongo||ロンドンオリンピック トラック・フィールド種目・競歩種目の日本代表選手|The Japanese national team of Track & Field and Race Walk at the 2012 Olympic Games}}][[Help:Installing Japanese character sets|<span class="t_nihongo_icon" style="color: #00e; font: bold 80% sans-serif; text-decoration: none; padding: 0 .1em;">?</span>]]) [[Category:Articles containing Japanese-language text]]{{ja icon}}. Japan Association of Athletics Federations (2012-06-11). Retrieved 19 June 2012.</ref> The editor says s/he didn't edit this line.
Ugh, I found the cause, it's another whitespace bunny-hop bug. This whole mess is made because we have something like )[category] <span> and it gets turned into ) [category]<span> . The space jumps to the other side of the category. Additionally, there's a template leakage bug in Parsoid here. That parenthesis, category, space and span tag should have been marked as template-generated content but aren't. This means that if you try to edit this reference, Parsoid will make a big mess of it. As long as you don't edit it, it'll be fine, but the space jump bug in VE causes it to be edited.
Change 155634 had a related patch set uploaded by Catrope: Fix the newline bunny-hop bug harder https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/155634
(In reply to Gerrit Notification Bot from comment #2) > Change 155634 had a related patch set uploaded by Catrope: > Fix the newline bunny-hop bug harder > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/155634 This addresses the VE part of the bug. With this patch, VE will no longer corrupt whitespace around categories and the like (I've been seeing this a bunch in needcheck diffs, so that should fix those too). This will prevent Parsoid from corrupting the reference on this page, *unless* you edit it, in which case it'll still get messed up. I'll file a Parsoid bug for that.
Change 155634 merged by jenkins-bot: Fix the newline bunny-hop bug harder https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/155634
