https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55236

Web browser: --- Bug ID: 55236 Summary: Self closing tags Product: Pywikibot Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified Mobile Platform: ---

Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1334/ Reported by: Anonymous user Created on: 2011-08-28 15:13:07 Subject: Self closing tags Original description: Since MW 1.16 wgHtm5 and wgWellFormedXml are turned on by default. And cosmetic_changes.py still changes things like <br> to <br />, I don't see any reason for that. There are three options we have here: * Stop making these kind of changes * Make these changes "complete" and add some tags that are not fixed (eg. <hr> to <hr />) * Do just the opposite, and let the MW fix the tags (eg. a<br/> to <br>, etc) I like the third option, because it makes the code easier to read for editors. In the attachment there's a patch to apply the third option.

python version.py: Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r9462, 2011/08/28, 11:34:03) Python 2.7 (r27:82500, Aug 07 2010, 16:54:59) [GCC] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True