https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72426
James Forrester <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|copy paste of tables does |Tables should default to |not preserve true copy of |all-in-one-line syntax |wiki markup | --- Comment #8 from James Forrester <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Spinningspark from comment #6) > > More generally, however, I don't think it's plausible to try to retain > > non-semantic syntax conventions in this edge case (normally people will be > > modifying/moving a table or adding a new one, not copying an existing one > > and then for some reason expected a particular form of wikitext). > > Adding a new table has no relevance to this issue (nothing is being pasted). Exactly. > Moving an existing table, I would very much expect it to be retained > exactly. This is a bit like cutting and pasting some text and having your > word processor go over it with a spellchecker without being asked. Cutting and pasting a table inside VE does retain the exact same HTML. It's just bug 70857 that's causing them to grow in size (and which I'm sure will be fixed in the next few days). Note that it is *not* the case that the HTML of tables is preserved for non-VE tables being pasted into VE, as the tables have to be sanitised because MediaWiki heavily restricts what you can do to a table. > I don't really consider this an edge case. I frequently copy tables and > other elements within an article and between articles in a step and repeat. > I have often witnessed other users doing such things, it is not just me. > Think about all those television episode articles for instance. I try not so do to. :-) But aren't almost all of these tables you're talking about actually templates? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
