Maniphest T20188

Pages queried with {{PAGESIZE:...}} show up in the "templates transcluded on this page" list below the edit window
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	• bzimport
	Mar 26 2009, 11:07 PM

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Author: happy.melon.wiki

Description:
Which is inevitable, really, given that the parser function adds links to the templatelinks table to ensure cache integrity. Nonetheless, they're *not* templates, they're *not* transcluded, and they *shouldn't* appear below the edit window.

I have a nasty feeling that this is not solvable without a complete overhaul of the way functions like this and #ifexist: handle cache coherence, or at least an extra field to allow these additions to be marked as 'silent' or some such. Both will probably require a schema change; marking as such.

Related: bug15735, bug12019 - same issue for #ifexist:

Version: 1.15.x
Severity: minor

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Reference: bz18188

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T56902 Deprecate and remove the purge action from MediaWiki
Open	None	T268526 Use a dedicated mechanism to track page dependencies
Open	None	T20188 Pages queried with {{PAGESIZE:...}} show up in the "templates transcluded on this page" list below the edit window

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:32 PM

• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-Templates, Schema-change.

• bzimport set Reference to bz18188.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Mar 26 2009, 11:07 PM

davidg wrote:

I came here today to report the same thing, but saw it has already been reported. This is especially confusing when editing a page that contains a template that in turn uses {{PAGESIZE:}}, since then it is hard to find out what is causing it. And {{PAGESIZE:}} is probably mostly used in templates, so that is the normal case.

Today I added two {{PAGESIZE:}} calls to a sub-template of {{documentation}} on enwp. I use those two calls for debug purposes to detect and report some faulty usage. I am checking if there exist two talk subpages larger than 200 bytes, too large to just be redirects, and report it to a category so we can remove those talkpages. But now we see red links to the two talkpages below the edit window when editing most templates on the English Wikipedia that use the green /doc boxes. That might result in people clicking those redlinks and creating those talkpages. Exactly what I don't want to happen... Fortunately in this case I only need to use the {{PAGESIZE:}} calls for some days, since I only use them for a debug run. But if I needed to use {{PAGESIZE:}} for a long time, then it would be a bigger problem.