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Flow comments start and end with a lot of whitespace
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After T175937 was resolved, I was hoping that posts could be extracted with something as simple as

$( 'article' ).map( function( i, e ) {
	return $( e ).text();
} );

When I tried this, I noticed that many Flow posts start with "\n\t\t\t\t\t\t" (a line break and six tabs) and ends with "\n\t\t\t\t\t" (a line break and five tabs). Some posts start with "\n\t\t" and end with "\n\t". There does not seem to be – as far as I'm able to discern – any pattern to this, i.e. it does not seem to be related to indentation of the post.

Is this intentional? Where does it come from?

Example page: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipediadiskussion:Flow

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Nirmos triaged this task as Lowest priority.Mar 4 2018, 4:12 AM

There's a bunch of whitespace in the <article> tags before and after. We can probably remove that.

Change 458789 had a related patch set uploaded (by Sbisson; owner: Sbisson):
[mediawiki/extensions/Flow@master] Trim whitespace around Flow posts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/458789

Change 458789 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Flow@master] Trim whitespace around Flow posts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/458789

Etonkovidova closed this task as Resolved.EditedSep 14 2018, 10:51 PM
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Checked the fix in betalabs - e.g.:

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Compare with testwiki (wmf.20):

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