user57: I've noticed that on a handful of tag wikis, the initial portions are missing, even though they are reflected on the tag wiki page itself.
In the tags list:

On the tag wiki page:


user6: This is by design, the tag wiki excerpt code tries to avoid repetition in the beginning of the excerpt. See this answer by Jeff Atwood for some more details. The regex is supposed to be the following, though I don't know if this is still current:
^.{0,40}?
(
(this\stag\s(is)?\s?)  # this tag .. this tag is|about ...
|
(used\sto\s)           # this tag is used to ...
|
(the\s[^\s]+\stag\s)   # the {foo} tag ...
|
(the\stag\s[^\s]+)     # the tag {foo} ...
|
(\s(is|are)\s)         # blah blah blah is|are ...
)

This causes a significant amount of collateral damage, as you have noticed.

57: <p>I've noticed that on a handful of tag wikis, the initial portions are missing, even though they are reflected on the tag wiki page itself.</p>

<p>In the tags list:</p>

<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/33s4b.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>

<p>On the tag wiki page:</p>

<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/95Q2L.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
 6: <p>This is by design, the tag wiki excerpt code tries to avoid repetition in the beginning of the excerpt. See <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/82702/151385">this answer by Jeff Atwood for some more details</a>. The regex is supposed to be the following, though I don't know if this is still current:</p>

<pre><code>^.{0,40}?
(
(this\stag\s(is)?\s?)  # this tag .. this tag is|about ...
|
(used\sto\s)           # this tag is used to ...
|
(the\s[^\s]+\stag\s)   # the {foo} tag ...
|
(the\stag\s[^\s]+)     # the tag {foo} ...
|
(\s(is|are)\s)         # blah blah blah is|are ...
)
</code></pre>

<p>This causes a significant amount of collateral damage, as you have noticed.</p>
