Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Task/core

editintro parameter broken

As pointed out by sawyer777 at the newsroom talk page, the "Start article" button for "Featured content" currently fails to preload content, even though the corresponding template exists at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/Story-preload/FC.

It looks like this is because of a bug in this template regarding the editintro parameter (which only gets a value for "Featured content" currently, explaining why the preloads for other sections still work). The generated "Start article" button links to

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia+Signpost%2FTemplates%2FStory-preload%2FFCeditintro%3DWikipedia%3AWikipedia+Signpost%2FTemplates%2FStory-preload%2FFC%2Fintro&title=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia+Signpost%2FNext+issue%2FFeatured+content&create=Start+article

but it should be

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia+Signpost%2FTemplates%2FStory-preload%2FFC&editintro=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia+Signpost%2FTemplates%2FStory-preload%2FFC%2Fintro&title=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia+Signpost%2FNext+issue%2FFeatured+content&create=Start+article

(i.e. the "&" before "editintro" is missing).

@JPxG: did you test this aspect before and after your recent whitespace-optimizing edits to this template?

Regards, HaeB (talk) 07:26, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

I don't see anything like that when I click the 'start article' button for 'Next featured content'. I get

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia+Signpost%2FTemplates%2FStory-preload%2FFC&title=Wikipedia%3AWikipedia+Signpost%2FNext+issue%2FNext+featured+content&create=Start+article

And it preloads everything just fine. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 17:36, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

It seems you are unaware of the stopgap changes JPxG made in the meantime, removing support for the "editintro" parameter entirely (see also [1]). Regards, HaeB (talk) 18:58, 1 June 2024 (UTC)