Re: [Wikitech-l] broken user scripts getting in the way of other features

Hallo, I am a bit of advocate for VisualEditor in my home Wikipedia (Hebrew), and I ran into a user with a curious problem: He is an experienced editor, and he was positive about trying to edit with VE, but it didn't work for him. After a bit of poking around I found that he has a common.js in his user space that had a syntax error. He probably tried to add some user script once, did it incorrectly, and didn't bother to continue. This didn't break any other JS-based features, at least not in a way that he noticed, but it did break VE. It's possible that he's not the only one. Is there a way to lint all the user-space JS pages to see that user don't break their own environments? Even a basic syntax check would be nice. One could say that users should be responsible for their user spaces, but in practice some users just copy some code without understanding what they did, and this can help them get rid of cruft. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l