Don't perform word-level diff when it makes no sense
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	MaxSem
	Apr 8 2016, 11:51 PM

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Example diff: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:MaxSem/weirdiff&diff=2095110&oldid=2095109

At some point, if the difference between paragraphs exceeds some threshold (e.g. 90% words), just render the difference as a complete replacement of one line with another.

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Mentioned Here: T139603: Show text changes when moving text chunks (#2)

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MaxSem created this task.Apr 8 2016, 11:51 PM

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MaxSem added a parent task: T121469: Improve diff compare screen.Apr 8 2016, 11:52 PM

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Umherirrender edited projects, added wikidiff2; removed MediaWiki-Page-diffs.Jan 14 2023, 12:20 PM

I think this was fixed (or at least improved) with T139603: Show text changes when moving text chunks (#2). No screenshot was provided.

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Don't perform word-level diff when it makes no sense
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