[Mediawiki-l] TasksExtension & Parser interaction breaks lists

[Sumurai8 (DD)]

Hi Jan,

You can try to use

  :*

instead of:

   **

Difference is that the system won't try to make a <ul> in a <ul>, but uses a
<blockquote> and a <ul>. Technical, things are screwed up, but on your page
things should look fine.

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> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 16:52:45 -0700
> From: Jan Steinman <Jan op Bytesmiths.com>
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] TasksExtension & Parser interaction breaks
>        lists
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> We've been using the great Tasks Extension to put lite (extremely
> lite) project management in our wiki.
>
> Unfortunately, where we '''really''' want to use <tasks> is within
> lists, which is how we format meeting minutes, which is where action
> items are assigned, formatted individually as <tasks>...</tasks>.
>
> Tasks are run through the parser, which apparently is putting extra
> line breaks in, which then messes up the list formatting. You can see
> a good example here:
>        http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Minutes:20090503
>
> If you scroll down to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th bold ACTION text, you can
> see that they are embedded in a level-2 bullet list, but that they are
> causing the list to be re-set with an extra line feed.
>
> I know it's the parser that's doing this, as I can edit extensions/
> Tasks.php and replace "$parserOutput->getText()" with "$summary",
> which is what is being sent through the parser. In such a case, the
> $summary is not parsed, and the bullet list looks like it is supposed
> to.
>
> I have a copy of Tasks.php (modified to do agreements, rather than
> tasks) that you can see behaving in this non-parsed manner, in our
> Sandbox:
>        http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Sandbox
>
> I've looked at ParserOptions, hoping to find something like
> $mDontAddExtraLinefeeds but to no avail. :-)
>
> If I replace parse($summary...) with the private method
> replaceInternalLinks($summary), it looks like it is supposed to,
> except of course that wikitext formatting and internal links are lost.
> (And I don't really want to be sending private methods nor hacking
> around in Parser.)
>
> Any thoughts on what's going on, and how best to fix it?
>
> Thanks for whatever advice you can offer!
>
> :::: Magic: using envisioned intent and directed action to select your
> desired future path from among the infinite ones available. ::::
> :::: Jan Steinman, Communication Steward, EcoReality:
> http://www.EcoReality.org
>  ::::
>
>