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erroneous Skype conversion
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Author: notingram

Description:
A date -- 3600-3000 BC -- in the article on "megalithic temples of Malta" has been turned by your software into a Skype phone number. My guess is that this happens on other sites as well. I thought you should know.


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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:14 PM
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That is caused by the broken skype toolbar not mediawiki.

matthew.britton wrote:

(In reply to comment #1)

That is caused by the broken skype toolbar not mediawiki.

To be more clear to the bug reporter: You, or someone who edited the article in question, has installed the Skype toolbar for Firefox. Unfortunately, this toolbar decides to convert everything it sees into a Skype phone number. Including editable text fields. If you installed the toolbar, you should uninstall it; otherwise, if you come across instances of Skype phone numbers in articles, use the page history to find who added it, and tell them to uninstall the toolbar.