Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Formatter/Auto Edit Summary/doc
The Formatter script automatically performs a number of common formatting operations.
To install, simply include this line in your monobook.js:
importScript('Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts/Formatter');
importScript('Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts/Formatter/Auto Edit Summary');
Make sure you refresh (Ctrl+F5) after saving to complete the installation.
When using an edit box, you should have a tab called format. Click this to use Formatter. Make sure you preview all the changes before saving!
Functions
- Standardises and removes excess whitespace (tabs, spaces, carriage returns etc.)
- Does not break special case of using a space at the start of the line for preformatted data
- Converts dashes, squared2 and degree° symbols to Unicode characters, e.g.
–,–or–to – (U+2013) - Makes sure not to break items which should not be converted to Unicode
- Fixes some common non-standard headings:
- Standard headings have whitespace and capitalisation standardised, e.g.
"== eXterNAL LiNKs ==" "==External links==" - "see also", "related topics", "related articles", "internal links" and "also see" sections become "
See also " - "external links", "outside links", "web links" and "exterior links" sections become "
External links " - Likewise with the singular case, e.g. "exterior link" becomes "External link"
- "references", "reference", "sources" and "source" sections have whitespace & capitalisation standardised as above
- Standardises appearances of categories, e.g.
category : Test Category:Test - Fixes common syntax errors, e.g. converts
text text - Fixes broken internal and external links (currently only treats
http://links as external links), e.g. corrects[dog] dog - Removes external images and removes code from internal images
- Simplifies some links, e.g.
dog dog dogs dogs - Loads as a tab on edit pages