Hi,
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Eric Sun esun@cs.stanford.edu wrote:
I'm using MediaWiki 1.15.1 and I imported the dump using xml2sql. Most enwiki pages render correctly, but a bunch of pages (e.g. Jennifer_Garner) show spurious </span> tags (inspecting the page source show a bunch of </span>).
Are you using $wgUseTidy? It is an HTML cleanup process that is always enabled on WMF projects. Since it it is there, template creators often miss closing spans and other things, or leave in extra close tags, and never notice because the tidy fixes them. Would not surprise me a bit if dozens of en.wp templates have such errors; I find them occasionally on en.wikt.
Robert