Maniphest T45281

Strange diff on the English Wikipedia
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	• MZMcBride
	Dec 20 2012, 6:16 AM

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Strange diff on the English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muckraker&diff=528844147&oldid=528844134. Not sure off-hand what caused this or how it was possible, so it needs further investigation at some point.

Version: wmf-deployment
Severity: normal
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Muckraker&diff=528844147&oldid=528844134
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https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42616

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Reference: bz43281

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 12:57 AM

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• MZMcBride created this task.Dec 20 2012, 6:16 AM

More examples:
https://cr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Community_Portal&diff=25198&oldid=25191
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Brettz9&diff=prev&oldid=5257864
Trying to undo results in a null edit, but perhaps additional space was trimmed by pre-save transformations in subsequent edits.

(From https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum&oldid=5265084#Mysterious_diff )

Aklapper lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Low.Apr 2 2015, 2:32 PM

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Pppery closed this task as a duplicate of T68886: Null edits are recorded in page history, sometimes with non-zero size change.Oct 24 2023, 12:56 AM