https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72512
Bug ID: 72512
Summary: Cut+paste of {{convert}} and {{cite web}} unleashes
invasion of snowman clone army in endless loop
Product: VisualEditor
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
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Steps to reproduce:
* Open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowman?veaction=edit
* Mark the sentence "It was 113 feet 7 inches (34.62 m) tall and weighed over
9,000,000 pounds (4,080,000 kg).[1]" and cut it (Strg+X).
* Paste it in again (Strg+V).
* Click before "It" to place the cursor at the beginning of the sentence.
Result: The editor starts adding copies of the sentence in an endless loop,
with the templates (see below) replaced by snowmen:
"It was ☃☃ tall and weighed over ☃☃.☃☃It was ☃☃ tall and weighed over ☃☃.☃☃It
was ☃☃ tall and weighed over ☃☃.☃☃It was ☃☃ tall and weighed over ☃☃.☃☃It was
☃☃ tall and weighed over ☃☃.☃☃It was ..."
(Actually, if one scrolls or clicks somewhere in the page, the loop may stop,
but I've observed it going on for more than a minute, generating 378 copies of
the sentence.)
Here is the wikitext source of the sentence:
"It was {{convert|113|ft|7|in|m}} tall and weighed over
{{convert|9000000|lb|kg|-4}}.<ref>{{cite
web|url=http://www.sundayriveron-line.com/AngusSnowman_1.htm|title=Angus, King
of the Mountain — World's Largest Snowman|date=February 19,
1999|publisher=Sunday River
On-Line|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071012082219/http://www.sundayriveron-line.com/AngusSnowman_1.htm|archivedate=2007-10-12}}</ref>"
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