Visual editor inserts blanks h4-tag, new line and changes links
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	Formatierer
	Feb 11 2018, 9:56 AM

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In german wiktionary the visual editor makes unintended changes to the source text. See https://de.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=einen&diff=6289743&oldid=6289729

inserts a new line between level 2 and level 3 headers
inserts a blank after colons
changes links [[unbestimmt]]er to [[unbestimmt|unbestimmter]]
converts level 4 header to h4-tag

This happens not on all articles. The article https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/einen is the only one found so far. In this edit i added a comma after ]]en https://de.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Ethnie&curid=39211&diff=6289796&oldid=6289782

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Formatierer created this task.Feb 11 2018, 9:56 AM

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Formatierer updated the task description. (Show Details)Feb 11 2018, 10:43 AM

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Liuxinyu970226 added a project: VisualEditor.Feb 11 2018, 1:26 PM

These mostly look like Parsoid issues.

Esanders added a project: Parsoid.Feb 13 2018, 5:11 PM

• Deskana moved this task from To Triage to External and Administrivia on the VisualEditor board.Feb 13 2018, 7:45 PM

@Pchelolo @mobrovac could this have been a restbase failure to fetch old revision content?

ssastry triaged this task as Medium priority.Feb 26 2018, 4:20 PM

It does indeed look quite like a mismatch for html and data-parsoid. I have looked into the storage and there is both html and data-parsoid for that old revision still stored with matching TIDs and the values seem to be correct.

I've tried to look if there's something interesting logged about that page around the time of the corrupted edit and couldn't find anything either.

Here it happend after or during insert of a new entry: https://de.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Aufnahmef%C3%A4higkeit&action=history

• mobrovac added a project: Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External).Dec 20 2018, 12:03 PM

LGoto moved this task from Needs Triage to Backlog on the Parsoid board.Feb 15 2020, 9:42 PM

I am going to close this. This was probably some transient failure in the VE -> RESTBase -> Parsoid communication path and there isn't a way to reproduce this now.

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