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Investigate why some replies have extra indentation
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Description

In reviewing comments posted using the Reply tool, @Whatamidoing-WMF noticed some of these comments were being posted at an unexpected level of indentation. For more details, see "Observed behavior" below.

We assume people are manually adding extra indentation syntax in the Repy text input. This task is about understanding whether this assumption accurate and whether improvements should be made to the tool to lower the likelihood of this happening.

Done

  • Document what we think to be the cause of this behavior
  • Document what – if any – next steps should be taken

Observed behavior

Observed behaviorWikiAffected userLink
Wrong indentation (:: instead of :)NLYmneshttps://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Overleg_gebruiker:Ymnes&curid=5123323&diff=55992402&oldid=55992396
Wrong indentation (::: instead of :)HUPalotabaráthttps://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Szerkesztővita:Palotabarát&curid=1468839&diff=22443144&oldid=22442730
Wrong indentation (:: instead of :)ARWisam85https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=نقاش_المستخدمة:Wisam85&curid=6528687&diff=45545104&oldid=45544952
Wrong indentation (:: instead of :)ARShaimaahttps://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=نقاش_المستخدمة:شيماء&curid=7331385&diff=45550233&oldid=45549485
Wrong indentation (:: instead of :)ARShaimaahttps://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=نقاش_المستخدمة:شيماء&curid=7331385&diff=45576445&oldid=45576384
Wrong indentation (:: instead of :)ARDr-Taherhttps://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=نقاش_المستخدم:Dr-Taher&curid=730507&diff=45588873&oldid=45583567
Wrong indentation (:: instead of :)ARShaimaahttps://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=نقاش_المستخدمة:شيماء&curid=7331385&diff=45588566&oldid=45588557
Wrong indentation (:: instead of :)ARFaisalhttps://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=نقاش_المستخدم:فيصل&curid=1786729&diff=45605624&oldid=45605410
Wrong indentation (:: instead of :)ARFaisalhttps://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=نقاش_المستخدم:فيصل&curid=1786729&diff=45602713&oldid=45602706
Wrong indentation (::: instead of :)ARShaimaahttps://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=نقاش_المستخدمة:شيماء&curid=7331385&diff=45660565&oldid=45660453

Event Timeline

  • User Faisal in ar.wiki and the use of an extra :, he affirmed that he didn't know about the automatic insert of the indentation so he typed them manually.
  • User Shaima also affirmed the same usage.
  • User Faisal in ar.wiki and the use of an extra :, he affirmed that he didn't know about the automatic insert of the indentation so he typed them manually.
  • User Shaima also affirmed the same usage.

Thank you for getting to the bottom of this, Habib.

For now, I'm going to move this to our backlog assuming this is not a common pattern. If you continue to see this behavior, please comment as much here and if possible, include links to the diffs of what you observed.

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