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hCaptcha edit attempt logs: Normalize line endings
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Summary

Some diffs are not generated correctly due to mismatched line endings that vary across systems ("\r\n" compared to '\n"). We should use TextContent::normalizeLineEndings() in calculating the proposed content diff.

Acceptance criteria

  • Edits that use different line endings in the text editor do not result in malformed diffs in the mediawiki.hcaptcha.edits event logging data

Event Timeline

Change #1214447 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; author: Kosta Harlan):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] hCaptchaEditAttempt logging: Normalize line endings

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1214447

Change #1214447 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@master] hCaptchaEditAttempt logging: Normalize line endings

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1214447

Change #1214469 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; author: Kosta Harlan):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.4] hCaptchaEditAttempt logging: Normalize line endings

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1214469

Change #1214470 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; author: Kosta Harlan):

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.5] hCaptchaEditAttempt logging: Normalize line endings

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1214470

Change #1214469 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.4] hCaptchaEditAttempt logging: Normalize line endings

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1214469

Change #1214470 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents@wmf/1.46.0-wmf.5] hCaptchaEditAttempt logging: Normalize line endings

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1214470

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-12-03T10:27:03Z] <kharlan@deploy2002> Started scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1214469|hCaptchaEditAttempt logging: Normalize line endings (T411578)]], [[gerrit:1214470|hCaptchaEditAttempt logging: Normalize line endings (T411578)]]

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-12-03T10:29:22Z] <kharlan@deploy2002> kharlan: Backport for [[gerrit:1214469|hCaptchaEditAttempt logging: Normalize line endings (T411578)]], [[gerrit:1214470|hCaptchaEditAttempt logging: Normalize line endings (T411578)]] synced to the testservers (see https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mwdebug). Changes can now be verified there.

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2025-12-03T10:34:59Z] <kharlan@deploy2002> Finished scap sync-world: Backport for [[gerrit:1214469|hCaptchaEditAttempt logging: Normalize line endings (T411578)]], [[gerrit:1214470|hCaptchaEditAttempt logging: Normalize line endings (T411578)]] (duration: 07m 56s)

Seems like this may still be an issue, so I'm moving it to ready, for investigation and follow-up fixes.