https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50052

James Forrester <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |ASSIGNED
                 CC|                            |[email protected],
                   |                            |[email protected],
                   |                            |[email protected]
          Component|General                     |Data Model
           Assignee|[email protected]    |[email protected]
            Summary|VisualEditor: still         |VisualEditor: Mis-nested
                   |altering lines the user     |annotations are cleaned up,
                   |hasn't touched              |leading to a dirty diff

--- Comment #2 from James Forrester <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> ...and quite dramatically - take a look at
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.
> php?title=Modified_discrete_cosine_transform&diff=561051085&oldid=558725133

Eurgh. I hate being proven wrong; each of those changes fixes the
(entirely-broken, but masked for users by MediaWiki) wikitext; these are the
kinds of errors it's not really possible for us to re-implement.

Specifically, <i>Foo <sup>Bar</i> Baz</sup> is definitely broken HTML
(mis-nested annotations), and I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that
we fix these. Obviously it'd be much better if we had a bot do a massive run
over the corpus and fix these for users now, rather than have them blame VE,
but that's not going to happen. :-(

Punting to Roan for thoughts, but I think this is probably a lost cause.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Brad also has a suggestion (along with a bug report) for a workflow to make
> these easier to identify:

That's going to be done in VisualEditor as part of bug 49761 (well, not that
way, because VE can't objectively know what bits of the DOM it "should" have
just altered unless we have a local copy of MediaWiki :-)) but yes, coming very
soon, hopefully.

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