Template:Blockquote paragraphs - Revision history

Jason: 41 revisions imported: Export Template:Quote from mediawiki.org

2018-01-29T05:40:30Z

41 revisions imported: Export Template:Quote from mediawiki.org

Dantman: 40 revisions from :w:en:Template:Blockquote paragraphs

2013-09-27T12:31:43Z

40 revisions from w:en:Template:Blockquote paragraphs

Gadget850: update per talk

2013-04-26T17:43:39Z

update per talk

Spanglej: rv no consensus, take it to the talk page

2013-04-11T11:55:45Z

rv no consensus, take it to the talk page

Nnemo: I restore. Gadget, you are wrong. The colon is the symbol of citation, not indentation. This is a matter of semantics and accessibility. See the last section of my talk page.

2013-04-11T09:56:09Z

I restore. Gadget, you are wrong. The colon is the symbol of citation, not indentation. This is a matter of semantics and accessibility. See the last section of my talk page.

Gadget850: : is wikimarkup for indent and has nothing to do with citations

2013-04-10T19:35:46Z

: is wikimarkup for indent and has nothing to do with citations

Gadget850: interwikis now go on Wikidata

2013-04-10T19:32:30Z

interwikis now go on Wikidata

Nnemo: I restore. Yes, citation is a change of sense. The sense of citation is citation, not “indentation”. Semantics matter. Accessibility too.

2013-04-10T18:46:56Z

I restore. Yes, citation is a change of sense. The sense of citation is citation, not “indentation”. Semantics matter. Accessibility too.

Spanglej: rv change of sense and accuracy

2013-04-09T23:03:43Z

rv change of sense and accuracy

Nnemo at 00:26, 7 April 2013

2013-04-07T00:26:44Z

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 <div style="float: right; padding: 0 1em;">{{navbar|Blockquote paragraphs|plain=y}}</div>
-Due to the utterly intractable [[MediaWiki]] bug reported at {{bugzilla|6200}}, and still unfixed {{as of|February 2012|lc=y}}, block quoting on Wikipedia, with or without a template, cannot handle freeform linebreaking for paragraphs and poems and the like, unless formatted one very specific (and annoying) way. It's not a problem of blockquote templates, but all uses of {{tag|blockquote|open}}.
+The {{tag|blockquote|o}} element and any templates that use it do not honor newlines:
+{{markup
-{{collapse top|left=y|title=The problem in action: test cases that seem like they should work but fail|bg=#EEEEEE|bg2=#ECFCF4}}<div class="collapse-workaround">
+|<nowiki><blockquote>
-The intuitive choice:
+Line 1
 Line 2
-<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />
+Line 3
-Line 2 <br />
+Line 4
-Line 3 <br />
+</blockquote></nowiki>
-Line 4}}</code></blockquote>
+|<blockquote>
 Line 1
 Line 2
 Line 3
-Line 4}}
+Line 4
 </blockquote>
-Blank lines seem to work at first:
+}}
 Line 2
 Line 3
 Line 4
-Line 4}}
+</poem></blockquote></nowiki>
+|<blockquote><poem>
-Yet this markup fails when the indent wikimarkup ":" is used:
+Line 1
 Line 2
 Line 3
 Line 4
-Line 4}}
+</poem></blockquote>
 }}<noinclude>
 {{Documentation}}

@@ Line 37: / Line 37: @@
 Line 4}}
-Yet this markup fails with wiki ":" citation:
+Yet this markup fails when the indent wikimarkup ":" is used:
 :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1
@@ Line 73: / Line 73: @@
 <p>Line 4</p>}}
-but again can't be indented in citation:
+but again can't be indented in by use of the indent wikimarkup ":"
 :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|<p>Line 1</p>
@@ Line 90: / Line 90: @@
 {{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}}
-And it {{em|does}} work with wikimarkup ":" citation, unlike the failed test cases hereinbefore:
+And it {{em|does}} work with the indent wikimarkup ":", unlike the failed test cases hereinbefore:
 :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}}

@@ Line 37: / Line 37: @@
 Line 4}}
-Yet this markup fails when the indent wikimarkup ":" is used:
+Yet this markup fails with wiki ":" citation:
 :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1
@@ Line 73: / Line 73: @@
 <p>Line 4</p>}}
-but again can't be indented in by use of the indent wikimarkup ":"
+but again can't be indented in citation:
 :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|<p>Line 1</p>
@@ Line 90: / Line 90: @@
 {{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}}
-And it {{em|does}} work with the indent wikimarkup ":", unlike the failed test cases hereinbefore:
+And it {{em|does}} work with wikimarkup ":" citation, unlike the failed test cases hereinbefore:
 :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}}

@@ Line 37: / Line 37: @@
 Line 4}}
-Yet this markup fails with wiki ":" citation:
+Yet this markup fails when the indent wikimarkup ":" is used:
 :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1
@@ Line 73: / Line 73: @@
 <p>Line 4</p>}}
-but again can't be indented in citation:
+but again can't be indented in by use of the indent wikimarkup ":"
 :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|<p>Line 1</p>
@@ Line 90: / Line 90: @@
 {{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}}
-And it {{em|does}} work with wikimarkup ":" citation, unlike the failed test cases hereinbefore:
+And it {{em|does}} work with the indent wikimarkup ":", unlike the failed test cases hereinbefore:
 :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}}

@@ Line 140: / Line 140: @@
 {{Documentation}}
-<!-- Categories and interwikis links go on the /doc subpage. -->
+<!-- Categories go on the /doc subpage. -->
 </noinclude>

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@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-<div style="float:right; padding:0 1em;">{{navbar|Blockquote paragraphs|plain=y}}</div>
+<div style="float: right; padding: 0 1em;">{{navbar|Blockquote paragraphs|plain=y}}</div>
 Due to the utterly intractable [[MediaWiki]] bug reported at {{bugzilla|6200}}, and still unfixed {{as of|February 2012|lc=y}}, block quoting on Wikipedia, with or without a template, cannot handle freeform linebreaking for paragraphs and poems and the like, unless formatted one very specific (and annoying) way. It's not a problem of blockquote templates, but all uses of {{tag|blockquote|open}}.
@@ Line 5: / Line 5: @@
 The intuitive choice:
-<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1<br />
+<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />
-Line 2<br />
+Line 2 <br />
-Line 3<br />
+Line 3 <br />
 Line 4}}</code></blockquote>
@@ Line 19: / Line 19: @@
 Blank lines seem to work at first:
-<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1<br />
+<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />
 <br />
-Line 2<br />
+Line 2 <br />
 <br />
-Line 3<br />
+Line 3 <br />
 <br />
 Line 4}}</code></blockquote>
@@ Line 37: / Line 37: @@
 Line 4}}
-Yet this markup fails with wiki ":" indentation:
+Yet this markup fails with wiki ":" citation:
 :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1
@@ Line 49: / Line 49: @@
 Just trying to use {{tag|p}} or {{tag|br|single}} markup won't solve all the problems:
-<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1&lt;br/><br />
+<blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 &lt;br/><br />
-Line 2&lt;br/><br />
+Line 2 &lt;br/><br />
-Line 3&lt;br/><br />
+Line 3 &lt;br/><br />
 Line 4}}</code></blockquote>
 results in odd spacing, with the middle blocks too close together:
-{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1<br />
+{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />
-Line 2<br />
+Line 2 <br />
-Line 3<br />
+Line 3 <br />
 Line 4}}
-Meanwhile this version seems okay at first:
+Meanwhile this version seems OK at first:
 <blockquote><code><nowiki>{{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|&lt;p>Line 1&lt;/p><br />
@@ Line 73: / Line 73: @@
 <p>Line 4</p>}}
-but again can't be indented:
+but again can't be indented in citation:
 :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|<p>Line 1</p>
@@ Line 84: / Line 84: @@
 {{As of|February 2012}}, the {{em|only}} solution for the problem is to use {{em|unbroken markup}} with {{tag|p}} or {{tag|br|single}} elements (or others, like nested blockquotes and lists):
-:{{tnull|<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1&lt;br/>Line 2&lt;br/>Line 3&lt;br/>Line 4.}}
+:{{tnull|<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 &lt;br/>Line 2 &lt;br/>Line 3 &lt;br/>Line 4.}}
 which, while hard to read, especially for long content, results in the expected:
-{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1<br />Line 2<br />Line 3<br />Line 4.}}
+{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}}
-And it {{em|does}} work with wikimarkup ":" indentation, unlike the failed test cases above:
+And it {{em|does}} work with wikimarkup ":" citation, unlike the failed test cases hereinbefore:
-:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1<br />Line 2<br />Line 3<br />Line 4.}}
+:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}}
-Happily, there is an HTML-comment workaround for readability that lets you do whatever you want:
+Happily, there is a [[HTML]] comment workaround for readability that lets you do whatever you want:
 <blockquote><code><nowiki>
 {{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=&lt;!--<br />
--->Line 1&lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
+-->Line 1 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
--->Line 2&lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
+-->Line 2 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
--->Line 3&lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
+-->Line 3 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
 -->Line 4.}}
 </code></blockquote>
@@ Line 109: / Line 109: @@
 {{</nowiki><includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=&lt;!--<br />
 <br />
--->Line 1&lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
+-->Line 1 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
 <br />
--->Line 2&lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
+-->Line 2 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
 <br />
--->Line 3&lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
+-->Line 3 &lt;br/>&lt;!--<br />
 <br />
 -->Line 4.}}
@@ Line 122: / Line 122: @@
 {{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=<!--
--->Line 1<br /><!--
+-->Line 1 <br /><!--
--->Line 2<br /><!--
+-->Line 2 <br /><!--
--->Line 3<br /><!--
+-->Line 3 <br /><!--
 -->Line 4.}}
-They {{em|are}} indentable:
+They {{em|are}} citable:
 :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|1=<!--
--->Line 1<br /><!--
+-->Line 1 <br /><!--
--->Line 2<br /><!--
+-->Line 2 <br /><!--
--->Line 3<br /><!--
+-->Line 3 <br /><!--
 -->Line 4.}}<noinclude>
 {{Documentation}}
-<!-- Categories and interwikis go on the /doc subpage. -->
+<!-- Categories and interwikis links go on the /doc subpage. -->
 </noinclude>