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Edit summaries include wikitext markup in new section heading links

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Summary by JJMC89
Newslinger (talkcontribs)

When using the new discussion feature to create a new section that includes wikitext markup (e.g. links and italics) in the section heading, the resulting edit summary incorrectly includes the markup in the link to the new section.

For example, in en:Special:Diff/1019015313, I created a new section titled Test (italicized), but the resulting edit summary includes a broken section link to ''Test'', with the apostrophes included. This bug also affects links in the new section heading. It does not affect the reply feature.

Here are the results of several tests:

Results of new section tests
DiffNew section nameEdit summary section link
en:Special:Diff/1019015313Test''Test''
en:Special:Diff/1019017088Test[[Test]]
en:Special:Diff/1019015131Test[[Test]]
en:Special:Diff/1019015223Another testAnother ''[[test]]''
en:Special:Diff/1019019296Link[[Piped link|link]]
en:Special:Diff/1019016491Another linkAnother [[piped link|link]]

On a general note, I am very impressed with the user experience of the new features from the talk pages project. Keep up the excellent work!

Whatamidoing (WMF) (talkcontribs)

This bug is still open, but I don't remember noticing the problem recently. (I haven't been looking.)

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