Look into best way forward for word-level diff in Wikibase
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Figure out where we use WordLevelDiff, but also consider alternative solutions to understand our way forward.
The investigation should focus on WordLevelDiff and our possibilities to use it, or, if need be, modifying it, so we could use it. (see this comment for more on this)
It appears the Tech wishes is using it, so asking Adam or Svantje might be a good option.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Mark WordLevelDiff as newable for now	mediawiki/core	master	+4 -0

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved	Feature	Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE	T303317 Show word-level diff for terms and sitelinks in Wikibase diffs
		Resolved		Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE	T311224 Look into best way forward for word-level diff in Wikibase

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noarave created this task.Jun 23 2022, 11:44 AM

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@Michael and I looked at WordLevelDiff and TableDiffFormatter and concluded that TableDiffFormatter isn’t very useful to us, but marking WordLevelDiff as @newable should be acceptable, under the same conditions as its parent class Diff (namely, that T257472 wants to eventually introduce a factory for it, at which point Diff should no longer be newable).