Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-25664447-20151202194725

Shiveapedia uses templates, EGS-link and EGS-link2, to link to pages in its subject matter (the webcomic El Goonish Shive) in a standardised format. This is used both for endnote citations (when wrapped in ref-tags) and for generally linking to pages in the comic under discussion, for example on Shipping and more especially on El Goonish Shive Timeline.

Now when I set the template type, under the new system, to "citation or reference", and then view the site on a mobile (via Firefox on Android, although I'd expect similar results from other mobile browsers):


 * 1) All instances, whether in footnotes and in-line, instead render as the literal string
 * 2) All in-line instances furthermore render as list items rather than in-line.

Changing the template type to "data" alleviates this problem, but it seems to be an issue nonetheless.

What is going on?

And while I'm at it, is there any way to keep an eye on template type changes, preferably across the entire wiki? I (speaking for myself) primarily keep an eye on things via Recent Changes, and template type changes seem not to show up there, or in template histories.

Edited: Moved the "what is going on" to a place where it made more sense. 