VisualEditor: Language templates replaced by snowmen at Japanese Wikipedia
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	• Whatamidoing-WMF
	Jul 23 2013, 2:32 PM

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The error can be seen at http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ロマン主義&diff=prev&oldid=48242310

Each language template in the lead sentence (e.g., {{lang-en}}, used for providing translations of the article title into English) was replaced by two snowmen.

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Severity: normal
URL: http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ロマン主義&diff=prev&oldid=48242310

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Reference: bz51883

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T53792 VisualEditor: Non-English Wikipedia issues (tracking)
		Resolved		Catrope	T53883 VisualEditor: Language templates replaced by snowmen at Japanese Wikipedia

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 2:03 AM

• bzimport added projects: VE-deploy-2014-07-24, VisualEditor-ContentEditable.

• bzimport set Reference to bz51883.

• Whatamidoing-WMF created this task.Jul 23 2013, 2:32 PM

I quickly tried to reproduce this, and failed. It might have been fixed by improvements to the code. It would be good if someone can ask B637pcgt what they did to cause this issue.

jawp still has only a few VE edits per day
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/special:recentchanges?tagfilter=visualeditor&days=30&limit=500

I have just duplicated this in Thai wikipedia. Not only does the {{lang-en}} template turn into snowmen, the surrounding text gets rendered into (bolded) English upon saving.

Diff:https://th.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%8E%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%81&diff=5062666&oldid=4871033

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