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Image gets empty 'alt' attribute when changed
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Description

  1. Open an existing image on a page
  2. Select "Change image" and replace it with image
  3. Go to the wikitext diff in the save dialog, observe |alt=| has been added.

Event Timeline

Change 631980 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Don't set alt text if attribute was originally 'null'

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/631980

Change 631980 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Don't set alt text if attribute was originally 'null'

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/631980

matmarex edited projects, added Editing QA; removed Patch-For-Review.
matmarex moved this task from Code Review to QA on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.
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(no idea how you managed to remove the task from the workboard and simultaneously move it to a different column on that workboard)

This should be testable on the beta cluster.

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