Misleading documentation about markup examples for splitting long lists
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	Dec 23 2013, 11:19 PM

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The Translate extensions documentation on MediaWiki.org gives example of best practices to handle wiki markup.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page_translation_administration#Markup_examples

Among other wiki elements, it indicates that to split long lists, one should “use <translate>-tags [and] not insert new lines as this will break the HTML output.” The reverse is actually true :

Breaks output:

Categories

</translate><translate>

Links ----

Output ok:

Categories

</translate>
<translate>

Links ----

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta_talk:Babylon#Long_lists_and_Translate

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Reference: bz58922

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:23 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-Translate.

• bzimport set Reference to bz58922.

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JeanFred created this task.Dec 23 2013, 11:19 PM

Aklapper added a project: Documentation.Jan 7 2015, 3:31 PM

Nikerabbit moved this task from Backlog to page translation on the MediaWiki-extensions-Translate board.Jan 28 2015, 4:56 PM

Docs have been updated (this is actually a duplicate of another bug I think)

MarcoAurelio removed a parent task: T2001: [DO NOT USE] Documentation is out of date, incomplete (tracking) [superseded by #Documentation].Dec 6 2017, 7:32 PM

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