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)[reply]

Translations: none yet

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Support Tgr (talk) 08:29, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dvorapa (talk) 09:13, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:04, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 18:02, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ninovolador (talk) 21:08, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Obermair 4 (talk) 21:46, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shizhao (talk) 02:59, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Luan (discussão) 20:19, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Syrenka V (talk) 21:26, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Evad37 (talk) 23:41, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Dromedar61 (talk) 20:50, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
Support → «« Man77 »» ^[de] 13:57, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support MichaelSchoenitzer (talk) 14:28, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:05, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support WikiMasterGhibif (talk) 23:24, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Klaas `Z4␟` V: 08:55, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Waldir (talk) 10:37, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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)[reply]
Support Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 02:53, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support - as proposed. Checkingfax (talk) 21:13, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support this is a quite annoying bug _• _• _hugarheimur 22:36, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support the wub "?!" 00:24, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Facenapalm (talk) 12:58, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support, a very annoying bug — NickK (talk) 16:29, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]