tag hook contents are not parsed correctly (symptoms: links replaced with comments, list syntax not parsed, strip markers)
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	matmarex
	Nov 2 2014, 6:44 PM

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On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 20:55:44 +0100, Bryan Davis wrote:

Quiddity pointed me to the help page for status indicators because of
something he saw me playing with for linking to Phabricator projects.
I tried it out and the badge I had made doesn't render as I'd expect
on mw.o. The parser is swallowing links in the indicator content and
replacing them with html comments. Check out my test page and see what
I mean:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:BDavis_(WMF)/Notes/Indicator_test

Since your commit message explicitly mentioned "Redirect shortcuts
display" as one use for this feature this seems like a bug, but I
thought I'd ask you if this was expected or not before filing one.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

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Reference: bz72887

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Unbreak Now!.Nov 22 2014, 3:58 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Parser.

• bzimport set Reference to bz72887.

matmarex created this task.Nov 2 2014, 6:44 PM

This is because I used Parser::recursiveTagParse(), and contrary to
its documentation the output of this function is not fully parsed html;
it is "half-parsed" instead, which means that lists and links have not
been fully parsed yet, and strip markers are still present.

It is apparently meant to be used only if the result will be output
directly back onto the page, which will cause it to go through the
rest of parsing business. That is not happening in this case, as we
pull the content out to display it elsewhere.

I'm working on a patch and I intend to have it deployed on Monday.

Change 170593 had a related patch set uploaded by Bartosz Dziewoński:
Correctly parse <indicator/> contents, Parser rejiggering

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/170593

Torture test – all of the below fail now and work with the patch:

<indicator name=link>[[Main Page]]</indicator>
<indicator name=list>* foo

bar</indicator>

Adding parser tests including the above in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/170599

Is that something to backport to 1.25wmf6 before group1 is deployed on Tuesday?
Was the problem triggered by a recent change? I admit I'm pretty clueless how commonly <indicator> is used (yet) and judging the urgency of this bug.

Change 171010 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
Correctly parse <indicator/> contents, Parser rejiggering

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/171010

Change 171011 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
Correctly parse <indicator/> contents, Parser rejiggering

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/171011

Change 170593 merged by jenkins-bot:
Correctly parse <indicator/> contents, Parser rejiggering