WikiExtractor / WikiExtractor/wikiextractor
Malformed wiki markup inside HTML comment causes content to be dropped.
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Description
If the wiki markup contains an HTML comment which contains certain kinds of malformed wiki markup, all content after the comment will be dropped. An example:
Before the comment.
<!-- HTML comment here
{{malformed
| stuff = here
End HTML comment -->
After the comment comes {{some stuff}} that should be okay.
The result is just "Before the comment."
This causes, for instance, virtually all of the content to be dropped in the article on Ferdinand Marcos.
Needless to say, content inside an HTML comment should have no effect whatsoever on the parsing of the article.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the malformed HTML-comment example from the issue and trace the wiki markup parser that handles comments. The fix is done when malformed markup inside an HTML comment has no effect and the content after the comment, including the later template, is preserved.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Clearly specified
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- 45/100