OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (\uFFFC) inserted by a edit
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	Amire80
	May 22 2016, 7:13 AM

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I'm not sure how did it happen or how to reproduce it, but reporting just in case:

In this edit some "" characters were inserted. It probably shouldn't have happened—I can't think of a reason for them to appear in articles.

The edit happens to be vandalism, and it was reverted because of other content problems. I don't know of a way to input these characters from mobile keyboards, so I guess that it's a bug in MobileFrontend or in the mobile browser that the editor used.

Here's another example in the English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dreamtime_%28disambiguation%29&diff=next&oldid=655168898

Both edits are tagged as "Mobile edit, Mobile web edit, Visual edit", so tagging both VE and MobileFrontend. (The Hebrew Wikipedia edit also has a "nowiki" tag, which is inserted by a local AbuseFilter.)

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Amire80 created this task.May 22 2016, 7:13 AM

Restricted Application added subscribers: Zppix, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptMay 22 2016, 7:13 AM

Jdlrobson added a project: Contributors-Team.May 23 2016, 6:12 PM

Maybe an emoji?

In T135932#2320566, @Jhernandez wrote:

Maybe an emoji?

Maybe, but unlikely. Why wouldn't it be just inserted as the actual emoji?

And even if it is an emoji, this kind of conversion is wrong.

Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER inserted in VE mobile web edits to OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (\uFFFC) inserted by a user of mobile VE.May 24 2016, 7:31 PM

Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Lowest priority.

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.May 31 2016, 7:11 PM

Couple more. Both from the mobile editor but not with visual editor tag. (tags: Mobiilimuokkaus, mobiilisivusto-muokkaus) IP user however edited with the mobile visual editor too in this session.

around the word " itävaltalaisen "

https://fi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vivica_Bandler&type=revision&diff=17239708&oldid=16330283

before the word " vei "
https://fi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vivica_Bandler&diff=next&oldid=17239734

Restricted Application added a subscriber: jeblad. · View Herald TranscriptOct 25 2018, 3:15 PM

Object replacement character appeared here at the start of my edit summary (right before the word ”useinmiten”):
https://fi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luettelo_televisiosarjan_Simpsonit_hahmoista&diff=prev&oldid=17693780

When I made that edit I used desktop computer and (Fedora) Linux with Google Chrome version 70.0.3538.77 (Official Build) (64-bit). I edited source directly and didn't use visual editor. Somebody noticed that character with different browser... I couldn't have noticed it with Chrome, but checked afterwards with Mozilla Firefox that it was there.

Additional info: I didn't use ”New wikitext mode” nor WikEd.

One example in a page title. I tried to check if the page was created from a link but I didn't find any links to the page.

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BCDuchesse-silkki

Zache renamed this task from OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (\uFFFC) inserted by a user of mobile VE to OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER (\uFFFC) inserted by a edit .Nov 15 2018, 6:38 PM

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Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to Team:Editing on the MobileFrontend board.Jul 24 2020, 2:32 AM

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