[Wikipedia-l] Bizarre (non) "bug"?

[Larry Sanger]

You're right, of course!  Sorry for even suggesting that it was a bug in
Cliff's very, very fine code!

Larry

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From: "Sunfall to-Ennien" <pwcast at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Bizarre "bug"?


>
> --- Larry Sanger <lsanger at nupedia.com> wrote:
> > On http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Civil_engineering
> > there are two phrases that are properly wikified:
> >
> >   [[environmental engineering]]
> >   [[applied mathematicians]]
> >
> > But both phrases appear with double brackets *displayed* and without a
> > clickable question mark.  What's even more bizarre to me is that the
above
> > phrases appear alongside other such phrases that are structurally
identical,
> > and those other phrases *are* shown with clickable question marks!  For
> > example, this
> >
> >         Other parts of civil engineering include [[transportation
> >         engineering]], [[environmental engineering]], and [[construction
> >         management]].
> >
> > is displayed like this:
> >
> >         Other parts of civil engineering include [transportation
> >         engineering]?, [[environmental engineering]], and [construction
> >         management]?.
> >
> > Help?
>
> You probably already got this response, but looking at the source, it
seems to have line breaks in
> between each of the words in those tags.  I just deleted the pagebreaks
and saved the edit, and
> they look proper now.
>
> Phil the ever-lurking
>
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