User:Lupin/Pages with buggy previews

This is a list of pages with popup previews which are not as Nature intended. Please feel free to add more pages you find, and suggest fixes to my regexes if you're into that sort of thing.

Currently broken

• Escherichia coli - ideally, close brackets or treat brackets as one sentence
• Heroin (not first sentence)
• Isis (h2/h3/par should get either all of that or h3/par; it just gets h3)
• Japan (italic intro text included)
  • Now fixed in article source - the "—" was out of italics. Maybe paragraphs that include nothing but italicised text and/or interpunction should be excluded.
• Wikipedia:Browse - odd page, but just gives |}
• Great Googly Moogly - blockquotes are problematic (currently they're just deleted).
• Ichthys - what should we do with SVG images?
• User:Wiki_brah - I only get the first two words previewed while I'm set to receive the first 6 sentences. Maybe a problem with the exclamation marks?

  [Thanks for being the first person other than me to add to this page!] This is because we extract the first two pars only. Here, the second "sentence" doesn't end until the third par.

• Singular they - livepreview bug, methinks
• Tamil language - removing ^| lines is a bad idea.
• Whose line is it anyway? - question marks give in main link
• Japanese bobtail - redirect code doesn't like pipes
• Malaysia
• The Book of the Courtier
• University of Wisconsin
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-09-12/Anti-vandal_tools - very long thin image needs to be tamed!
• Special:Log and all other Special: pages
  • This works for me - popups are disabled for links to most special pages (as they should be, in my opinion, since you can't edit them or do much to them). Would you like to see previews generated for Special pages too? Lupin|talk|popups 12:08, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
    • I think most of the "&title=Foo&action=blah" links are having similar behaviour - showing the CSS of the target page as the popup text. Alphax ^τεχ 22:57, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Hm, these seem to work for me. Maybe something changed, I forget! historyedit raw Lupin|talk|popups 19:11, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

• Israel Defense Forces - the 1st & 2nd images are located in a table ( {{Template:IDFTable}} ) and are skipped - the image displayed is actually the third, which is less relevant. I assume this happens with all similar pages.

Yes, the image shown in the popup is the first image in the raw wikitext, not the first image on the page. Changing that behaviour would be hard and make things slow, so I'm not going to do so. Lupin|talk|popups 19:11, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

• Template:Opentask - has a link to itself with the words tasks you can do the popup displays unformatted wikitext. You can see this template in action on the Community_Portal Dalf | Talk 04:37, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Yes, templates are shown "raw". This was added to fulfill a feature request, so I don't consider it to be a bug. Lupin|talk|popups 19:11, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

• Aluminium - previews as simply "x" – ABCD^e✉ 18:47, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Francois I of France,Francis I of France

Should work now

• Jelly fungi - taxobox detection needs refinement (ignore "taxobox begin/end placement" templates)
• User_talk:Lupin - my oh my. this is odd.
• Kingdom of Ireland - multiple italic indented paragraphs, which some non-italic and bold bits
• Singer (2 pars? why?)
• SGR - uses TLAdisambig, but not recognized as a disambig
• Transformer gives a table fragment
• England, Wales (table problems)
• Roe v. Wade small, problematic table
• User:Dbenbenn - image tag with square brackets
• American English - over-zealous pruning of italic pages
• Raja Yoga - doubtless another italics-induced calamity
• Osiris - maybe the italics hacks should come after html tag removal
• Politics
• Philosophy - looks like section headings needn't begin lines. or something
• 1968 in film - should kill divs
• Satan - i.e. is not a sentence ending. i.?e.|e.?g.|n.?b.|sic.|etc.| any more?
• United Kingdom
• Goat - taxobox :-( fix idea: delete blocks of lines
• that won't work - eg Deer. just do a special taxobox case (yuck)
• Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
• Alexander the Great (livepreview bug? not sure) '''{{template}}''' is a problem. hm. could replace templates with spaces instead of deleting?
• Genetically modified food - blank. category tag gets in the way - delete not just images, but also category "links"
• Cult figure (linkus interruptus) - Dr., Mr. Mrs. Ms. don't usually end sentences
• Benedict Canyon - real paragraphs don't end in colons. delete blank lines after the first following after non-sentence-endings
• Roman Polański - a new section should break paragraphs too if there's interesting text preceding it. idea: "normalize" section breaks before paragraph split by insert blank line(s) before and removing line breaks afterwards
• Zoology - leading simple table
• Fahd of Saudi Arabia tables again - Template:Xxx begin...Template:Xxx end regex is SLOW.

See also

• User:Lupin/foo