@Elitre Thank you. Can you tell me this is a solvable problem or it is very long processed hard problem ?

I don't know, I don't have MS Word and therefore can't try to reproduce, and I don't recall about recent changes that meant VE lost the ability to retain table formatting. There's a bug triage meeting tomorrow, and if for some reason this task isn't evaluated then, I'll ask the team about it later in the week. HTH.

I think you forgot me. I talked to you at test.wiki. That same reason.

@Jdforrester-WMF What is the meaning of "for one user(?)" ?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey#Wikitext_paste_conversion_tool_interferes_with_table_pasting_from_MS_Word_for_one_user.28.3F.29

I wrote that paste code, I believe. I am not aware of any changes in the past weeks. We'd need a way to reproduce this before it could be fixed.

@NehalDaveND, can you upload a example Word document which has this problem? If possible, try to make it a minimal example—that is, try to remove as much as you can without removing the source of the problem. For example, if you have a 100 line table, try to reduce it to a 1 line table which has the same problem. If you can't make the problem appear in a 1 line table, try it in a 2 line table, and so on.

Also, can you tell us which operating system and browser you're using? Have you tried it in a second browser to see if the same problem happens?

Thanks!

@Neil_P._Quinn_WMF okay..

OS - Win7, Browser - crome, opera, mozila

• Proper work :-

• Not working properly :-

I told you last week a new process had started called

You can see here I had tried this in different browser. see...

I hope you understood this problem.

So here's my theory: something in MS Word's HTML paste output is triggering the "this looks like wikitext" heuristic, and causing the paste to be sent to Parsoid. But this really shouldn't be happening, since we shouldn't be triggering the heuristic if the paste type is text/html, only if it's text/plain. But perhaps MS Word isn't setting a content-type at all, or something is slipping through some other way.

In this case I don't think it's anything new which has changed in VE, I suspect it's some new document thing on the MS Word side which is suddenly causing the inclusion of '[[' (or some such) buried deeply in MS Word's HTML.

Just a theory.

We really needs a volunteer with MS Word to step through the process, ideally reproduce it with non-sanskrit text, but most importantly capture exactly what MS Word is trying to paste.

I can help with instrumenting a hacked VE to dump the paste contents, if we can locate someone (maybe in the SFO office) who has VE running on a local wiki and can reproduce the bug.

@NehalDaveND can you confirm that this bug is still occurring? I have a comment you added in phabricator in my email which includes, "Now it works properly so I request you please let it be like this." I can't find that comment above any more, perhaps you deleted it?

My working theory is that it was something about the specific document you were pasting from in MS Word which triggered the "looks like wikitext" heuristic. If that is the case, it wouldn't be surprising for the bug to "go away" when you pasted different text, or from a different document. That is why it is so important to come up with a reliable way to reproduce the bug, so we can understand what's actually going on.

@cscott I am confirming that "This bug is still occurring." I want to say that before whatever you wrote I couldn't understood. Can you tell me what can I do for this problem ? You wrote something technical thing and I couldn't gotten you properly. What is SFO office ? I will do anything to solve this bug and thank you for everything. :)

see attached....

• =?UTF-8?B?4KSX4KWA4KSk4KS+4KS24KWN4KSy4KWL4KSV4KS+4KSo4KWN4KS14KSv4KSDLmRvYw==?=641 KBDownload

In T117859#1803386, @NehalDaveND wrote:

see attached....

• =?UTF-8?B?4KSX4KWA4KSk4KS+4KS24KWN4KSy4KWL4KSV4KS+4KSo4KWN4KS14KSv4KSDLmRvYw==?=641 KBDownload

To clarify, this is the file from where he took the table which produced this diff (the table in the diff is no longer in the document, though).

To clarify further, as I chatted a bit with the editor:
he expects that the table he pastes from Word is a styled one - with something like class="MsoNormalTable" at the beginning, which he can later change to class="wikitable" (see example from April: 1 - 2).
What he gets now instead is something which doesn't look like a table and can't be easily turned into one, and he thinks this is due to this conversion tool that he doesn't recall appearing before.

@Sphilbrick is encountering a very similar problem in Excel, and he can reproduce it very consistently: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=690522044#Copy_and_paste_table_using_VE

Change 253821 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders):
Paste handlers: Break after the HTML data item

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/253821

Change 253821 merged by jenkins-bot:
Paste handlers: Break after the HTML data item

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/253821