Author: gabumon36
Description:
Any call to the API with action=query, prop=revisions, rvprop=content, and rvexpandtemplates=true does not have expanded templates in the content when that template is contained within <ref></ref> tags.
To reproduce, just make any such call to the API. For example:
Note that the templates within <ref> tags are not expanded:
<ref>{{cite web | title = Train (noun) | work = (definition - Compact OED) | publisher = Oxford University Press | url = http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/train?view=uk | accessdate = 2008-03-18}}</ref>It should instead expand the template like this:
<ref><span class="citation web"
>[http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/train?view=uk "Train (noun)"]. ''<nowiki />(definition - Compact OED)<nowiki />''. Oxford University Press<span class="printonly">. http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/train?view=uk</span><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved 2008-03-18</span>.</span><span
class="Z3988"
title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.btitle=Train+%28noun%29&rft.atitle=%28definition+-+Compact+OED%29&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.askoxford.com%2Fconcise_oed%2Ftrain%3Fview%3Duk&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:API"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></ref>This has no good workaround; the best I can find is to grab all of the unexpanded templates and feed them into another call to the API with action=expandtemplates and text=(the templates), which is not very good not only because it's extra hassle, but also because it requires twice as many calls to the API, which inevitably slows things down considerably.
Build 2010-08-12 on Windows 7 Enterprise (though it being the result of an API call, I would imagine it reproduces anywhere)
Version: 1.17.x
Severity: normal