All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXVIII

[GethN7]

Not yet... I'm waiting to see if we get another data point.  Even though three times is enemy action.

If this issue is occurring in source editing mode, then it's likely a bug that slipped into the core MW software. None of our extensions, by design, alter the stock MediaWiki editing parser, that is controlled by the core MW code. Our extensions just add features atop it, so we can rule out those. What the issue likely is caused by is an error in the source parser's HTML transformation for client side. Meaning, while it's rendered as HTML on the backend (as seen in inspect element on a browser), the END user (who reads the page) should only see regular text except where the HTML markup is explicitly shown on purpose. If we are seeing it where it's not intended to be shown, the core parser has an issue.

You'd be better served filing a report with the core MW developers or see if one is already reported and add confirmation if so.

Note: Miraheze automatically keeps track of the official recommended upgrade path for MW (we are on 1.40.1 currently). Since this did not occur prior and we have had no changes to any existing extensions or config setting and this was noticed only after switching to 1.40, it has to be a parser issue in the core software.