⚓ T241949 VE can't edit further items on list whose first part comes from a template

when the first part of a list is supplied by a template, and the rest as wikicode in the page itself, visual editor fail to edit the list

REPRODUCTION:

• open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:קיפודנחש/ve_bug
• open "edit source": the page look like so:

{{Ve list bug}}
* item 3
* item4

• open the same page for visual editing, and try to edit the list

EXPECTED:
clicking on the 1st or 2nd item in the list should bring the edit-template form, and this should highlight only the 2 first items. the rest of the list should be editable

OBSERVED:
clicking anywhere in the list brings the template editor (in the demo, the template does not have templatedata, and does not take parameters anyway, so basically, the user can't touch this list)

this sounds like pretty esoteric issue, but on hewiki, this is a very common pattern, especially in "external links" section: we have numerous templates which suck stuff from wikidata, and populate external links, and immediately below that, more external links are added as wiki-code. this bug prevents editors using VE from editing those lists.

peace.

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