Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Editing/Wikitext substitutions should work in ref and gallery blocks

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Wikitext substitutions should work in ref and gallery blocks

• Problem: Links ending in |]], substitutions with {{subst: and tilde-timestamps (~~~~~) don't behave as expected within <ref> and <gallery> blocks. (Amongst others.)
• Who would benefit: Article wikitext editors.
• Proposed solution: Resolve that substitution and pipe tricks work inside other mediawiki tag extensions
• More comments: More generally speaking: common wikitext substitutions that editors would expect to work in all reader-visible places, do not work in some contexts.

  mw:Extension:Cite has not evolved with other components of wikiediting. Substitution (subst:) and pipe tricks from inside custom tags like <ref> fail unless one pushes with more complicated use of {{#tag:}}. Such use can be problematic due to the misinterpretation of | and {{!}}. To note that the identified problem also applies to use of <poem>.

• Phabricator tickets: T4700: Pre-save transform skips extensions using wikitext (gallery, references, footnotes, Cite, status indicators, pipe trick, subst, signatures)
• Proposer: bdijkstra (talk) 16:49, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

• Translations: none yet

Voting

•  Support Tgr (talk) 08:29, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Dvorapa (talk) 09:13, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:04, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 18:02, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Ninovolador (talk) 21:08, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Thomas Obermair 4 (talk) 21:46, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Shizhao (talk) 02:59, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Luan (discussão) 20:19, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Syrenka V (talk) 21:26, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support - Evad37 (talk) 23:41, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Dromedar61 (talk) 20:50, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Very very old bug, supportin this might be the only way how to force developers t do something... JAn Dudík (talk) 06:10, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support → «« Man77 »» ^[de] 13:57, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support MichaelSchoenitzer (talk) 14:28, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:05, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support WikiMasterGhibif (talk) 23:24, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Klaas `Z4␟` V:  08:55, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Waldir (talk) 10:37, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support It also affects VE users: automatic addition of access date (using {{subst:#time:Y-m-d}} in {{cite web}} had to be removed because it messed up references inserted in VE, although it seemed to work while editing (!). Tacsipacsi (talk) 12:18, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 02:53, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support - as proposed. Checkingfax (talk) 21:13, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support this is a quite annoying bug _{• • hugarheimur} 22:36, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support the wub "?!" 00:24, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Facenapalm (talk) 12:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support, a very annoying bug — NickK (talk) 16:29, 11 December 2017 (UTC)