On the German-language Wikipedia's VisualEditor feedback page it was brought to our attention today that in several cases editors using the VisualEditor added to an article what looks to me like a directly-pasted image file:
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Note that in many, but not all cases it is the same code as above which is inserted.
The following cases were reported today:
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/173428398/174971828
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/174537672
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/174798163
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/175076832
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/175111657
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/175540354
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/175704341
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/175704688
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/175719654
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/175796590
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/176290503
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/176448060
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/176529517
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/176596385
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Diff/176596385
Two cases from the English-language Wikipedia: