Some Wikipedia links aren't parsed correctly

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Some Wikipedia links aren't parsed correctly #20

Open jpluimers opened 7 years ago

jpluimers commented 7 years ago

Parsing either these URLs gives an empty post:

I've seen this happen with other Wikipedia links as well, but not enough of them to assume all of them fail.

Will update this issue if I recognise a pattern in the failing links.

dshanske commented 6 years ago

They don't have any of the markup needed to be interpreted. You can, in theory, teach a parser to identify a mediawiki site and deal with it's way of doing things which might be worth it.

jpluimers commented 6 years ago

I remember the old bookmarklet parsing many of these correctly from a UX perspective.

If the v8 bookmarklet didn't work, then the v4 bookmarklet usually worked fine, but I cannot test with those any more as that functionality got broken.