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VisualEditor: Bulleted bullets and bulleted headers produced; can't save
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en.wp user Ruud Koot reports:
"When performing structural editing tasks (i.e. things which are slight more complex than changing typos or adding a sentence in the middle of an existing paragraph) it is very easy to get the editor into some weird state where it is impossible to get out of other than aborting the edit session and trying again more carefully. This includes things like introducing "bulleted headers" and "bulleted bullets", which cannot possibly be represented as wikitext."

He notes that "Copying and pasting around text and editing pages with tables [is a] fairly reliable method" to reproduce it.


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

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Reference
bz52639

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 1:59 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz52639.
Aklapper changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Mar 4 2015, 4:40 PM
Aklapper subscribed.

Hi @Thryduulf! Sorry that nobody has taken a look at this report yet and given feedback.

I tried copying bullets around on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AKlapper_%28WMF%29/Sandbox?veaction=edit but could not reproduce anything weird in Firefox 36 on Fedora 21.

Are there any specific steps to reproduce these problems, or edits / diffs that could be linked to? Any specific browser involved?

Setting task status to STALLED for the time being; please reset task status once there are clearer steps to reproduce. Thanks!

I don't recall this error, and I too can't reproduce anything now using Firefox 30. Given that it's been ~18 months since the report, it's likely this has been fixed by some other update in the meanwhile.

I don't see a need to keep this open any longer, if something similar is reported again a more specific bug can be opened.

Aklapper claimed this task.

I don't see a need to keep this open any longer, if something similar is reported again a more specific bug can be opened.

Thank you for the quick reply! Sounds reasonible, closing as declined (as we cannot reproduce anymore).