Pasting lists from Microsoft Word (MS Office) injects hidden HTML cruft like -
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	• Whatamidoing-WMF
	Aug 20 2014, 11:09 PM

Description

Look at https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1265106&diff=106479359&oldid=106473232

to find the addition of hidden comments like this:

-

Mr. Google says that this is caused by pasting contents from MS Word into (for example) e-mail messages.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69513
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61371

Details

Reference: bz69821

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Filter out comments from external paste	VisualEditor/VisualEditor	master	+1 -1
	Filter out comments from external paste	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+1 -1

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Mentioned In: T63371: VisualEditor: Span tags getting added to references when pasting from Microsoft Office
rGVED66c65166451c: Filter out comments from external paste
rEVED325bd0994e68: Filter out comments from external paste
T71513: VisualEditor: Copying from Microsoft Word adds XML cruft like " <w:WordDocument> " (mso = Microsoft Office)

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 3:30 AM

• bzimport added a project: VisualEditor-ContentEditable.

• bzimport set Reference to bz69821.

• Whatamidoing-WMF created this task.Aug 20 2014, 11:09 PM

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/175392/

Esanders added a comment.Nov 24 2014, 1:02 AM

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Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from VisualEditor: Pasting lists from Microsoft Word (MS Office) injects hidden HTML cruft like - to Pasting lists from Microsoft Word (MS Office) injects hidden HTML cruft like -.Nov 24 2014, 2:10 AM

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: VisualEditor.

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Blocked on the VisualEditor board.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/175415

Change 175415 merged by jenkins-bot:
Filter out comments from external paste

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/175415

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Blocked to FY 18-19 Q3/Q4 on the VisualEditor board.Nov 25 2014, 2:28 AM

Change 175392 merged by jenkins-bot:
Filter out comments from external paste

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/175392

Esanders mentioned this in Unknown Object (Diffusion Commit).Nov 25 2014, 2:46 AM

Jdforrester-WMF closed this task as Resolved.Nov 26 2014, 3:11 AM

Jdforrester-WMF added a project: WMF-deploy-2014-11-26-(1.25wmf10).

Krenair mentioned this in T71513: VisualEditor: Copying from Microsoft Word adds XML cruft like " <w:WordDocument> " (mso = Microsoft Office).Nov 26 2014, 12:39 PM