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VisualEditor: Advanced transclusion editor for complex templates eats parameters
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Description

If you have a complex transclusion (e.g., a succession box), and you try to rearrange the order of the items, and if one or more of those items is a template that contains a parameter, then some or all of the parameter-containing templates will silently disappear.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback/Archive_2014_1#Add_content_and_other_transclusion_mysteries for complaints.

Diffs of resulting problems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AFram%2Fsandbox&diff=596891776&oldid=596891699

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AFram%2Fsandbox&diff=597044161&oldid=596891923


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Severity: normal

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Reference
bz62415

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 2:52 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz62415.

Tested it in test2.

"Example: here all I did was use the "up" button four times: "up" the lowest "content", "up" the lowest s-aft, "up" the lowest "content" again, try to "up" the lowest s-aft again. Result when you want to save it: the s-aft has simply vanished :-)"

It was non-reproducible - either the issue is resolved or I am not inventive enough :( I'd like someone else to take a look at the issue - hence I've assigned some priority to it.

Etonkovidova set Security to None.