Last modified: 2014-10-10 21:48:59 UTC
I recently ran across [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polycarbonate&diff=prev&oldid=564618311 this edit]. It seems as though they were trying to fix a spelling correction and inadvertently destroyed a table and had an entire section get repeated. There was a little [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback#Strange_Diff discussion about the diff on the Visual Editor feedback page], where it was mentioned that the diff "is very strange and [the commenter didn't] recall seeing anything similar".
The problem is that the table wikitext is buggy there. It is missing a closing tag (in reality, it is missing a newline break. |-|} .. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polycarbonate&action=edit&oldid=563700122) The PHP parser output for this is also broken (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Polycarbonate&oldid=563700122#Manufacturers_and_brands and where the table has ended up). We could improve Parsoid to detect some scenarios like this, but it is currently lower priority. Fixing the table by adding a line break between "|-" and "|}" should fix the issue for now. Sample wikitext snippet for our use later: {| |foo |-|} abc
This was fixed a very long time ago (around August last year), but I didn't spot this report until just now; my apologies.
