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ContentTranslation added unnecessary font tags
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In this edit, the wikitext is completely damaged by totally unnecessary font tags.

Other problems :

  • links with no text : [[Special:BookSources/3937615024|<font><font></font></font>]]
  • ISBN links are incorrect : Special:Booksources instead of plain ISBN, and incoherence betweeen the link and the text [[Special:BookSources/3937615024|ISBN 071267456X]]

Is there any plan to deactivate this tool until its major bugs are fixed ? Currently it requires many efforts from volunteers to clean up the mess it regularly produces on articles in production wikis.

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NicoV created this task.Sep 1 2015, 6:19 AM
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KartikMistry subscribed.Sep 1 2015, 8:46 AM

In this edit, the wikitext is completely damaged by totally unnecessary font tags.

I tested this article and it seems not adding <font> tags. It looks some gadget(s) is causing this and will check in details again.

Arrbee added a parent task: T111155: ContentTranslation inserts unnecessary tags to translated pages (tracking).Sep 2 2015, 7:23 AM
Amire80 subscribed.Sep 2 2015, 8:20 AM

Most likely, it is added by a rarely used browser (maybe Microsoft Internet Explorer or Safari) or maybe the user copied the text from a word processor like Microsoft Word. I asked the user.

Amire80 merged a task: T111146: CX creates pages with empty font classes and multiple font tags.Sep 2 2015, 8:50 AM
Amire80 mentioned this in T111146: CX creates pages with empty font classes and multiple font tags.
Amire80 added a subtask: T105447: [Epic] replace plain contenteditable with VisualEditor in ContentTranslation.
Amire80 added subscribers: Magioladitis, Bgwhite.
Amire80 triaged this task as Medium priority.Sep 4 2015, 3:27 PM
Amire80 added a project: ContentTranslation-Release6.
Amire80 moved this task from Needs Triage to CX6 on the ContentTranslation board.
Amire80 moved this task from Backlog to Bugs on the ContentTranslation-Release6 board.Sep 4 2015, 3:37 PM
Bgwhite added a comment.Sep 15 2015, 6:06 AM

Sigh....

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nikolai_Stepanovich_Korolev&action=edit&oldid=681041250

Amire80 moved this task from CX6 to CX7 on the ContentTranslation board.Oct 1 2015, 5:54 PM
Amire80 renamed this task from Unnecessary font tags everywhere to ContentTranslation added unnecessary font tags.Oct 13 2015, 12:12 PM
Amire80 edited projects, added Essential-Work; removed ContentTranslation-Release6.
Amire80 moved this task from CX7 to Bugs on the ContentTranslation board.Oct 18 2015, 8:29 PM
Cirdan mentioned this in T197163: ContentTranslation added lots of font, div, and span tags to translated page.Jun 13 2018, 6:02 PM
Amire80 closed this task as Resolved.Aug 5 2019, 2:08 PM
Amire80 claimed this task.

This was most likely caused by using an old browser or by copying from another word processor. The migration to Visual Editor (CX2) is supposed to fix this. Please reopen if <font> tags appear like this again.

nshahquinn closed subtask T105447: [Epic] replace plain contenteditable with VisualEditor in ContentTranslation as Resolved.Sep 10 2019, 11:42 PM
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