Improve detection of wikitext on paste
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	Esanders
	Mar 3 2016, 10:47 PM

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Currently we don't detect multi-line templates (unless they contain other wikitext on a single line, which they often do), or plain extension tags (e.g. <ref>...</ref>).

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Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
Fix wikitext conversion of pasted '<ref>'s	mediawiki/extensions/Cite	master	+1 -1
Wikitext paste: Move MWWikitextStringTransferHandler matchRegExp into a registry	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+51 -14
Auto-convert pasted ref tags	mediawiki/extensions/Cite	master	+2 -0

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Mentioned In: T53899: Allow the user to add an arbitrary blob of wikitext while using the visual editor

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Esanders created this task.Mar 3 2016, 10:47 PM

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Esanders mentioned this in T53899: Allow the user to add an arbitrary blob of wikitext while using the visual editor.Mar 3 2016, 10:48 PM

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Change 275193 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders):
Wikitext paste: Move MWWikitextStringTransferHandler matchRegExp into a registry

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/275193

Change 275194 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders):
Auto-convert pasted ref tags

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/275194

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Jdforrester-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Mar 7 2016, 4:21 PM

Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.

Jdforrester-WMF edited projects, added Cite, VisualEditor-MediaWiki-References, VisualEditor-CopyPaste; removed Patch-For-Review.

Jdforrester-WMF set the point value for this task to 8.

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to TR0: Interrupt on the VisualEditor board.

Change 275193 merged by jenkins-bot:
Wikitext paste: Move MWWikitextStringTransferHandler matchRegExp into a registry

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/275193

Change 275194 merged by jenkins-bot:
Auto-convert pasted ref tags

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/275194

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.27-release (WMF-deploy-2016-03-08_(1.27.0-wmf.16)).Mar 7 2016, 5:00 PM

Change 282901 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders):
Fix wikitext conversion of pasted '<ref>'s

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/282901

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 12 2016, 11:16 AM

Change 282901 merged by jenkins-bot:
Fix wikitext conversion of pasted '<ref>'s