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Old Jan 4, 2023 | 9:38 pm
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raising several issues here...

Originally Posted by beltway
You can see what I think is the same bug in the wiki at Annual Free Night Cert from IHG (Rewards Club) Visa / Mastercard. The collapsed wiki cuts off the text in the middle of a word—which is another problem in itself—and inserts a carriage return mid-word (anniversar CRLF y) when the wiki is expanded.
1. I noticed an apparently-truncated wiki at Report spam / spammer post issues here (PLEASE read wikipost)

and what it has in common with the IHG page above is that the "show more" cutoff is in the middle of a LIST element if you view the source.

The "report spam" wiki in fact had a series of nested LISTs -- each bullet item opened a new LIST tag and then there were a string of /LIST at the end. I deleted the nested tags and that seems to have fixed the truncation problem, although because the "show more" ... happens in the middle of the list, it looks weird when you expand it (similar to the IHG thread)

Originally Posted by Adam Smith
That's exactly the issue I was having. In my case, the cut was after a comma, but I think it was just a coincidence based on the number of characters that were displayed when the wiki was collapsed.
The wiki on the referenced AC thread actually looks pretty normal, formatting wise -- out of curiosity, was the cut here previously in the middle of a bulleted list also?

2. btw the AC link highlights another deficiency of the new wiki "product" -- https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/air-...a-cowtool.html

the "Show more" link does not appear in a consistent location from one thread to another (on that AC thread it appears in the center of the page whereas in others it is on the lower left), and since it is the exact size and color as the rest of the regular wiki text, and does not change color or become underlined until you hover over it, this means you sometimes have to search around for a while until you find it. Whereas before, I remember the link being pretty prominent and easy to locate.

3. speaking of consistency, why is this entire wiki shown all at once? Using Global Upgrades on Delta (GUCs) post 2/1/2022 Changes

Although it does have a "Show more" link at the bottom, clicking on it results in absolutely nothing happening (other than changing to "Show less") -- the whole wiki content was already displayed to begin with. Clicking on "Show less" does remove one blank line at the end
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