If you select text on a Flow board then copy and paste it, the selection includes a lot of unwanted and invisible text: the titles of the trio of collapse icons, text from hidden action menus, the additional rollover text for timestamps and usernames, etc. These appear as
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5 hours ago Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:31:15 GMT
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A solution is to add "user-select: none" and the vendor-prefixed variants to these bits of HTML. (resources/mediawiki.less/mediawiki.mixins.less should have a .user-select(none) function that generates the full set of -webkit-user-select / -moz-user-select / -ms-user-select: none properties.)

Bug 62413 (Flow: show less chrome for Printable version of a Flow board) is related but applies to a different subset of Flow board elements. Users might be surprised that visible pieces of text aren't part of the selection, although e.g. skins/common/shared.css does this for the TOC "[hide/show]" and section "[edit | edit source]".

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