Thread:Extension talk:Vector/Vector sidebar Functionality Broken?

I have been banging my head against the wall trying to figure out why this is not working. Maybee someone can help.

When I use this in the markup:

It outputs a line of code like this: *MediaWiki:Sidebar/testing|testing

And on the MediaWiki:Sidebar page it looks like it should but on the actual sidebar it is not parsing it into a list item. I am not understanding why because as a preprocessor it should render the output before the nav bar processes the rest of the page. This was proven by: ** |       as well as by pasting the output into the markup section alone.

Any help is appreciated.