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Wikipedia android app formatting dependent on formatting tokens visible on-screen
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Go to the lbwiki article "Florent de Berlaymont" (or any other article with formatting that spans multiple lines)
  • Click on "Edit article"
  • Scroll down until you reach a point, where the beginning of a formatted text segment isn't visible on screen.

What happens?:
The text on-screen is formatted as if the formatting tokens of the text off-screen doesn't exist. E.g. if a text segment is enclosed between [ ... ] and '' ... '', but the leading [ and the leading '' aren't visible on the phone screen, the text segment isn't formatted as a link and as italics; on the other hand, the text that follows the closing '' is formatted as italics.

What should have happened instead?:
The text's formatting should be independent of what portion of the text is currently visible on-screen. E.g. if a text segment is enclosed between [ ... ] and '' ... '', it should be formatted as a link and as italics; the text that follows the closing '' should obviously no longer be formatted as italics.

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
Wikipedia android app version 2.7.50517-r-2025-01-21

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
In the two screenshots below, one can see that the formatting depends on what formatting tokens are visible on-screen. This should not be the case.

Screenshot_20250126-204132.png (2×1 px, 437 KB)

Screenshot_20250126-204057.png (2×1 px, 433 KB)

Event Timeline

Volvox renamed this task from Wikipedia android app to Wikipedia android app formatting dependent on formatting tokens visible on-screen.Jan 26 2025, 7:55 PM