Topic on Extension talk:PubmedParser

I have a MW instance that was updated from 1.21.something to 1.23.13. I didn't setup the old wiki, and it is no longer around for me to look at, but I have several references that look like <ref name=PMID:19957275/>. I realize this is not the current markup used by PubmedParser, but I was wondering if perhaps our old wiki used an older version of PubmedParser. If that is the case, will I need to update to a newer version of MW to get these references working again and if so, will the pages that use the older markup just work, or will I need to do some other stuff too?

Thanks.

If you have <ref name=PMID...> in the Wiki text itself, then that's not produced by PubmedParser. (Maybe by some other Pubmed-parsing extension.) PubmedParser markup looks like {{#pmid:12345}} and will never be changed in the source text of your pages. If you look at the page source in the browser, then you will of course see <ref> tags, but this is only the rendered output. The page source is not affected. You might want to try to force a re-rendering of the page by appending ?action=purge to a URL and see what happens.

Does this help?

Daniel (author of PubmedParser)

Hi Daniel,

Yes it does help, if only to confirm that PubmedParser isn't what was used before.

Thanks, Scott