[01:02:34] <Krinkle>	 jhathaway: copy-paste usually works for me as well, it preserves headings and bold/italic/paragraphs.
[01:03:42] <Krinkle>	 jhathaway: If you want to preserve anchor links and more, you may have to go through a step for GDoc to first serialie as plain HTML (Download -> HTML ZIP -> unzip -> open html file in browser), and then copy from there into a standalone VE surface (linked from doc.wikimedia.org, e.g. https://doc.wikimedia.org/VisualEditor/master/js/lib/ve/demos/ve/desktop-wikimediaui.html ) and then from there to an open VE window on-wiki.
[01:04:36] <Krinkle>	 the step through standalone VE demo is because the demo allows certain insecure elements which is needed to sneak in hyperlinks that are otherwise marked as potentially insecure. GDoc has additional class attributes and such on links which cannot be represented as wikitextt
[01:04:51] <Krinkle>	 I think we should change this - feature request at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129546
[01:05:29] <Krinkle>	 jhathaway: the benefit of this approach is that you stay within html at every step, but still an equal number of steps as you have now, though possibly more user friendly.