Echo gets the wrong section name (i.e. it parses the page differently from MediaWiki)
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	He7d3r
	Sep 25 2013, 4:49 PM

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The edit
https://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=36979705
triggered the following notification:

Reverta-me mentioned you on Filtro de edições/Análise talk page in "Filtro 119".
10 minutes ago | View changes

The section name is actually "Registros analisados", not "Filtro 119". The problem is caused by the following table which is in that section:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! [[WP:Filtro de edições/Análise/2013/06]]<span style="margin:0 0.5em;">/</span>[[WP:Filtro de edições/Análise/2013/06/Registros|Registros]]
! ...
! [[WP:Filtro de edições/Análise/2013/09]]<span style="margin:0 0.5em;">/</span>[[WP:Filtro de edições/Análise/2013/09/Registros|Registros]]
|-
|<pre>Introdução...
== Filtro 1 ==
*{{Ação|...}}
...
== Filtro 112 ==
*{{Ação|...}}
...</pre>
| ...
|<pre>Introdução...
== Filtro 1 ==
*{{Ação|...}}
...
== Filtro 119 ==
*{{Ação|...}}
...</pre>
|}

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Reference: bz54603

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He7d3r created this task.Sep 25 2013, 4:49 PM

Looks like extension tag blocks like <nowiki> and <pre> need to be stripped before the DiscussionParser goes looking for section boundaries...

Prioritization and scheduling of this bug is tracked on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/286

Here is another example: the edit
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Property_proposal/Creative_work&oldid=prev&diff=112096586

caused this notification:

Jakec mentioned you on the Property proposal/Creative work talk page in "Film".

but the edit was on section "Classificação Decimal Universal", not on section "Film".

• werdna unsubscribed.Dec 10 2014, 5:03 PM

This is something we should fix, but is a bit of an edge case. Should be able to turn one of these edits into a unit test(echo has facilities for this).

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SBisson moved this task from Inbox to Triaged but Future on the Growth-Team board.Jul 20 2018, 6:12 PM

I was just about to report this again (then I searched for duplicates):

If a page has multiple sections with the same title, like „Benachrichtigung“ in this case, the first link has the anchor „#Benachrichtigung“, while the second link has the anchor „#Benachrichtigung 2“.
However, notifications are unaware of this behavior and always use the section title. This shouldn't be the case. Note that this isn't that trivial, as section headings can change between notification sending and page view.

I disagree that this really is an edge case, it happens quite often.

matmarex updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 23 2018, 12:44 AM

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