On Feb 15, 2018 the German `In the News` story about Christoph_Ransmayr has an extra space at the beginning of the (HTML) text.
{F13772023}
Local endpoint: http://localhost:6927/de.wikipedia.org/v1/page/news
This is because https://de.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/html/Vorlage:Hauptseite_Aktuelles/174045932 refers to a picture floating on the right. Here's a shortened version of the Parsoid HTML:
lang=html
<li id="mwDg">
<span style="float:right; padding-top:0.6em; padding-left:0.5em;">
<figure-inline>
<a href="./Datei:Porträt_Christoph_Ransmayr_Foto_Johannes_Cizek_14_5KB.jpg">
<img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Portr%C3%A4t_Christoph_Ransmayr_Foto_Johannes_Cizek_14_5KB.jpg/122px-Portr%C3%A4t_Christoph_Ransmayr_Foto_Johannes_Cizek_14_5KB.jpg" data-file-width="283" data-file-height="188" data-file-type="bitmap" height="81" width="122" />
</a>
</figure-inline>
</span>
Dem österreichischen Schriftsteller <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="./Christoph_Ransmayr" title="Christoph Ransmayr" id="mwEw">Christoph Ransmayr</a><span typeof="mw:Entity" id="mwFA"> </span><small id="mwFQ">(Bild)</small> ist der <a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="./Kleist-Preis" title="Kleist-Preis" id="mwFg">Kleist-Preis</a> zuerkannt worden.
</li>
Just removing the `<figure-inline>` element is unfortunately not enough. The square would still show up.