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VisualEditor: Whitespace corruption, HTML-like entities removed, and apparent DSR issues
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Author: wmdv

Description:
I changed the word "you" to "your" by inserting an "r," in [[Gerrit/Tutorial]], but the edit summary said I inserted 10 characters, and the [https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Gerrit/Tutorial&diff=prev&oldid=732497 diff report] showed about 15 lines, with various things shifted around. I was using Chrom on Windows 8.

I reported this on the support page, and 88.130.86.210‎17:17, July 13, 2013 reverted my edit, and suggested I file a bug report. [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Extensive_diff_report. Support desk resolution.]

I have also been noticing that when a change comes up on my Wikipedia watch list, I sometimes have difficulty telling what an editor did, because the diff report is full of unmodified content.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Extensive_diff_report%2E

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bz51304

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 1:53 AM
• bzimport added a project: VisualEditor-DataModel.
• bzimport set Reference to bz51304.
• bzimport created this task.Jul 14 2013, 1:22 AM
• bzimport added a comment.Jul 14 2013, 1:28 AM

wmdv wrote:

The url for the support desk case is [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Extensive_diff_report.]

• bzimport added a comment.Jul 14 2013, 1:30 AM

wmdv wrote:

I am unable to enter the correct url, because it ends with a period, which seems to confuse bugzilla.

Ciencia_Al_Poder added a comment.Jul 14 2013, 11:13 AM

Trying to manually encode the dot again... It didn't work even on the URL field.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Extensive_diff_report%2E

Jdforrester-WMF added a comment.Jul 14 2013, 3:48 PM

Very odd corruption; assigning.

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor.Nov 23 2014, 10:48 PM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Nov 24 2014, 1:26 AM
Jdforrester-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Jan 15 2015, 12:37 AM
Jdforrester-WMF claimed this task.

No ability to track this down and no recurrence in over a year; closing.

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor 2014/15 Q3 blockers.Jan 23 2015, 11:32 PM
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Jdforrester-WMF edited a custom field.Aug 5 2015, 12:15 AM
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