Last modified: 2013-07-04 06:40:44 UTC
The following HTML does not seem to properly round-trip through VE: <p><a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="././Foo">./Foo</a></p> While the ././ prefix is not ideal (see Parsoid bug 50426) VE should still preserve the href on unmodified content. Instead, it seems to prefix another ./, which then results in diffs like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DreamWorks_Animation&curid=1509817&diff=562129988&oldid=562129729
Those prefixes actually seem to have been inserted by VE: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=DreamWorks_Animation&curid=1509817&diff=562129729&oldid=562106766
This seems to also seem to replace spaces with underscores, and mangles category links. EG changing [[Category:House (season 7) episodes]] to [[./Category:House_(season_7)_episodes]] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Out_of_the_Chute&diff=prev&oldid=562623071
It worked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Catrope/Shrek?veaction=edit though, so closing as working.
WORKSFORME is not good enough for a resolution for this bug. This seems to be quite a rare bug which I've only seen in edits with the visualeditor-needcheck tag https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&tagfilter=visualeditor-needcheck Looking thorough that this edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ron_Davies_(songwriter)&curid=31118393&diff=562723238&oldid=553701771 introduced the bad markup and that was only a couple of hours ago.
Note that I also deployed a fix for bug 50426 just before I closed this bug. That will avoid triggering this in VE even if there is still a bug.
My problem is still occurring. I've now created bug 50720 for the specific issue I'm seeing. The latest occurrence was 05:07, 4 July 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Austropotamobius_pallipes&curid=3945333&diff=562783871&oldid=545518009
