Description

Steps to reproduce:

Open a page for editing in VE.
Add a category.
Review your changes as visual diff.

Expected: The addition of the category is shown in the diff.
Actual: The diff claims there are no changes.

Reported by multiple editors, including User:Sario528 at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Uyjly6vii1zsep7w

Example: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:ESanders_(WMF)/sandbox&type=revision&diff=4296712&oldid=4296711&diffmode=visual

Details

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Show redirect meta items in visual diff	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+40 -13
	Render category diff	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+77 -16

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Related Objects

Duplicates Merged Here: T200006: Visual diffs of categories are confusing since categories aren't rendered

Event Timeline

Schnark created this task.Mar 24 2017, 8:37 AM

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Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to TR6: Visual diffs on the VisualEditor board.Mar 24 2017, 9:04 PM

Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Low priority.Mar 24 2017, 10:47 PM

Jdforrester-WMF added projects: VisualEditor-MediaWiki, MediaWiki-Categories, Design.

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

Probably a simple message like "There are (also) changes to metadata not visible in the main content, please see the wikitext diff for them" would suffice.

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor-VisualDiffs.Apr 10 2017, 11:01 PM

Liuxinyu970226 subscribed.Jul 17 2017, 5:23 AM

matmarex merged a task: T200006: Visual diffs of categories are confusing since categories aren't rendered .Nov 20 2018, 5:53 AM

matmarex added a subscriber: Tchanders.

• Whatamidoing-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Apr 26 2019, 1:20 AM

Sario528 subscribed.Apr 26 2019, 2:41 AM

• Esanders updated the task description. (Show Details)Dec 21 2020, 5:08 PM

This includes other metadata such as redirects (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:W3vpm7byombxiwkh)

Change 755429 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Give categories a rendering in preview mode

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/755429

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 19 2022, 4:02 PM

• Esanders moved this task from Backlog to In progress on the VisualEditor-VisualDiffs board.Jan 19 2022, 11:58 PM

• Whatamidoing-WMF renamed this task from Visual diff doesn't show changes to categories to Visual diff doesn't show changes to categories or redirects.Apr 11 2022, 6:55 PM

nammonsanta set Due Date to Apr 30 2022, 5:00 PM.May 1 2022, 2:32 PM

• Esanders removed Due Date.May 2 2022, 11:23 AM

matmarex added a project: Editing-team (Kanban Board).Mar 14 2023, 10:05 PM

matmarex moved this task from Incoming to Code Review on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.Mar 14 2023, 10:12 PM

Change 767905 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; author: Esanders):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Show redirect meta items in visual diff

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/767905

Change 755429 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Render category diff

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/755429

Change 767905 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Show redirect meta items in visual diff