Difference in rendering broken file with empty alt text
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	Jul 18 2025, 8:40 PM

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From https://parsoid-vs-core.wmflabs.org/diff/dtywiki/%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%A6%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AF-%E0%A5%A8%E0%A5%A6_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AD%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B8_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80

λ (master) echo "[[File:Flag of Honduras (2008 Olympics).svg|23x15px|border |alt=|link=]]" | php maintenance/run.php parse

<p><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:Error mw:File"><a href="/index.php?title=Special:Upload&amp;wpDestFile=Flag_of_Honduras_(2008_Olympics).svg" class="new" title="File:Flag of Honduras (2008 Olympics).svg"><span class="mw-file-element mw-broken-media" data-width="23" data-height="15">File:Flag of Honduras (2008 Olympics).svg</span></a></span>
</p>

λ (master) echo "[[File:Flag of Honduras (2008 Olympics).svg|23x15px|border |alt=|link=]]" | php maintenance/run.php parse --parsoid

<section data-mw-section-id="0" id="mwAQ"><p id="mwAg"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:Error mw:File" id="mwAw" data-mw="{&quot;attribs&quot;:[[&quot;alt&quot;,{&quot;txt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}],[&quot;link&quot;,{&quot;txt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}]],&quot;errors&quot;:[{&quot;key&quot;:&quot;apierror-filedoesnotexist&quot;,&quot;message&quot;:&quot;This image does not exist.&quot;}]}"><a href="http://ve:8080/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flag_of_Honduras_(2008_Olympics).svg" id="mwBA"><span class="mw-file-element mw-broken-media" resource="./File:Flag_of_Honduras_(2008_Olympics).svg" data-width="23" data-height="15" id="mwBQ"></span></a></span></p>
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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Author	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Bump wikimedia/parsoid to 0.22.0-a18	C. Scott Ananian	mediawiki/vendor	master	+4 K -3 K
	Missing Images: Don't drop span content for "empty" alts	Subramanya Sastry	mediawiki/services/parsoid	master	+17 -1

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ABreault-WMF created this task.Jul 18 2025, 8:40 PM

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Also https://parsoid-vs-core.wmflabs.org/diff/dtywiki/%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A8

Alien333 subscribed.Jul 20 2025, 4:57 PM

ssastry moved this task from Needs Triage to Bugs & Crashers on the Parsoid board.Jul 24 2025, 2:32 PM

ssastry added a project: Content-Platform-Team (Work In Progress).

ssastry moved this task from Backlog to Q1 FY26-27 on the Content-Platform-Team (Work In Progress) board.

Also seen in https://sg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulugar%C3%AFi?useparsoid=1

I am bumping up this priority since this is likely going to be more common and likely show up on other wikis. So, worth fixing this sooner than later.

Change #1181187 had a related patch set uploaded (by Subramanya Sastry; author: Subramanya Sastry):

[mediawiki/services/parsoid@master] WIP: Don't drop span content for $alt = ""

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1181187

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 22 2025, 7:40 PM

ssastry claimed this task.Aug 22 2025, 8:01 PM

ssastry moved this task from Q1 FY26-27 to Code Review on the Content-Platform-Team (Work In Progress) board.

Change #1181187 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/services/parsoid@master] Missing Images: Don't drop span content for "empty" alts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1181187

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 22 2025, 10:30 PM

ABreault-WMF moved this task from Code Review to To Deploy on the Content-Platform-Team (Work In Progress) board.Aug 23 2025, 3:06 PM

Change #1181757 had a related patch set uploaded (by C. Scott Ananian; author: C. Scott Ananian):

[mediawiki/vendor@master] Bump wikimedia/parsoid to 0.22.0-a18

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1181757

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 25 2025, 6:39 PM

Change #1181757 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/vendor@master] Bump wikimedia/parsoid to 0.22.0-a18

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1181757

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Aug 25 2025, 8:32 PM

ssastry moved this task from To Deploy to To Verify on the Content-Platform-Team (Work In Progress) board.Aug 27 2025, 3:01 AM

ssastry closed this task as Resolved.Aug 28 2025, 7:05 PM

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