Hi all, as an update on the changes I flagged last month:
there are still several articles that need to be fixed, including some on big wikis.
Among the most affected wikis:
Arab, Russian, Ukrainian, Farsi, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias...
What does "broken" look like?
(infobox exposing syntax in view mode; you may need to purge the cache to actually be able to see the issue live in some articles.)
How to check and fix:
A note about communications:
Throughout the year, the Parsing team will make several changes that will require kind community assistance. So far, the preprocessor one looks quite successful, with several volunteers coming to the rescue (thanks again!). There have been multiple mentions and updates in Tech News, emails, Village Pump announcements, talk pages at
mw.org, Phabricator... most fixes are done, and the remaining fixes to be done do not justify additional communication effort. As said before, other breaking changes will occur in time (which may affect way more pages), and over-communicating risks to distract and confuse helpful volunteers.
Thank you!
Elitre (WMF)