Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-01-21/Parser changes

This seems pretty drastic. Is there a check-off list for what has and remains to be checked? MilesAgain (talk) 18:41, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not as far as I know. The problem here is that there are some things that will be changed, and pages which can't handle the new changes need to be changed to allow for them. So the problem is to find which pages are using constructs that will become unsupported and correct them; I'm not sure if there's a list anywhere of pages where problems have been found but not corrected. --ais523 15:05, 24 January 2008 (U T C)

Since going live on the 24th, there have been at least 7 new bugs found in the parser (two of which are still pending as if this post). The 5 fixed are:

1. Comments can now share lines with editable section headers (per user request, as this method is widely used on wikipedia for noting section redirects).

2. The msgnw: magic word was broken, fixed now.

3. The first header in a template parameter or parserfunction was not editable. Two equals signs in a template or parserfunction now will take precidence as a possible editable section even over a template definition (although level 1 headers won't).

4. Signatures in templates were expanding. Fixed.

5. Occasional segfaulting on save.

As for a to-do list of fixes, there are the two pending bugs. (permalink) as well as a list on m:Talk:Migration_to_the_new_preprocessor#Cleanup.2FTasks_.28TO_DO.29 of things that need fixing in wikicode. The only major bug left is the way $ parameters are being handled in messages. --Splarka (rant) 08:59, 30 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]