Hey All
I have no idea what to do. I have been asking around. Hard spaces are being adding to English Wikipedia by the 100s to 1000s. I have no idea why and I have no idea how to fix it.
I have brought this up here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing#Hard_spaces
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cacycle/wikEd#Stop_adding_%C2%A0;
Folks appear to be saying that the problem is someone elses problem. It appears to be mainly coming from education initiatives / those who use visual editor and thus I imaging copying and pasting content between different parts of Wikipedia.
Per recommendations I have started a phabricator ticket here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183647
Help if I filled it out wrong appreciated :-) Happy holidays / Merry X-mas.
James
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 4:37 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Hey All
I have no idea what to do. I have been asking around. Hard spaces are being adding to English Wikipedia by the 100s to 1000s. I have no idea why and I have no idea how to fix it.
I have brought this up here https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing#Hard_spaces
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cacycle/wikEd#Stop_adding_%C2%A0;
Folks appear to be saying that the problem is someone elses problem. It appears to be mainly coming from education initiatives / those who use visual editor and thus I imaging copying and pasting content between different parts of Wikipedia.
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
James, I've reported a similar issue back in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cacycle/wikEd/Archive_013#wikiEd_rep...) Apparently the way to "solve" this non-issue has changed (for the better IMHO, but I can see why you consider it as worse).
I would suggest dropping wikiEd at once for one of the more modern editors, such as the syntax highlighting feature or the 2017 source editor. It will probably break your workflow for a while, but in the long term the benefits will outweigh the issues.
Strainu
2017-12-24 2:26 GMT+02:00 James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com:
Per recommendations I have started a phabricator ticket here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183647
Help if I filled it out wrong appreciated :-) Happy holidays / Merry X-mas.
James
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 4:37 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Hey All
I have no idea what to do. I have been asking around. Hard spaces are being adding to English Wikipedia by the 100s to 1000s. I have no idea why and I have no idea how to fix it.
I have brought this up here https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing#Hard_spaces
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cacycle/wikEd#Stop_adding_%C2%A0;
Folks appear to be saying that the problem is someone elses problem. It appears to be mainly coming from education initiatives / those who use visual editor and thus I imaging copying and pasting content between different parts of Wikipedia.
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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Thanks Strainu
I will fiddle around with those suggestions. It appears to be possible to adapt the colors within syntax highlighting. So maybe I can get a version of that which uses the WikEd colors.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Wikitext_editor_syntax_h...)
James
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
James, I've reported a similar issue back in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cacycle/wikEd/ Archive_013#wikiEd_replaces_the_non_breaking_space_(U+ 00A0)_character_with_space_(U+0020) Apparently the way to "solve" this non-issue has changed (for the better IMHO, but I can see why you consider it as worse).
I would suggest dropping wikiEd at once for one of the more modern editors, such as the syntax highlighting feature or the 2017 source editor. It will probably break your workflow for a while, but in the long term the benefits will outweigh the issues.
Strainu
2017-12-24 2:26 GMT+02:00 James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com:
Per recommendations I have started a phabricator ticket here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183647
Help if I filled it out wrong appreciated :-) Happy holidays / Merry
X-mas.
James
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 4:37 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Hey All
I have no idea what to do. I have been asking around. Hard spaces are being adding to English Wikipedia by the 100s to 1000s. I have no idea
why
and I have no idea how to fix it.
I have brought this up here https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/User_talk:WhatamIdoing#Hard_spaces
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cacycle/wikEd#Stop_adding_%C2%A0
;
Folks appear to be saying that the problem is someone elses problem. It appears to be mainly coming from education initiatives / those who use visual editor and thus I imaging copying and pasting content between different parts of Wikipedia.
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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