https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48346
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Bug ID: 48346
Summary: Visual editor inserting pawns into articles
Product: VisualEditor
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: major
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Editing Tools
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected],
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Classification: Unclassified
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Lately, I've been noticing random pawn characters at the end of paragraphs all
over English Wikipedia. The source of these pawns was a mystery to me until I
tried using the Visual Editor today. As soon as I started typing in the editor,
it inserted a pawn at the end of the line I was editing.
The pawn in question is the white pawn, typically the first piece to move in a
game of chess. This makes me wonder if perhaps the visual editor has become
sentient and is trying to initiate a friendly game with the editor.
Unfortunately, playing chess on Wikipedia was banned in 2006 as a violation of
WP:NOT,[1] so it's probably a good idea if we eliminate this sort of behavior.
Actual character: ♙
Unicode value: 2659
UTF-8 value: E2 99 99
Browser: Firefox
1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:Chess_championship
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