Wikipedia talk:AutoEd#Unproductive whitespace editing

Here is what it let a user do to an article the other day: {{diff||1251021366|1164811500|it closed a references tag and blew away the reference definitions}}. -- mikeblas (talk) 14:47, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

:As the page says, users are responsible for inspecting their edits. This user clearly did not. Aaron Liu (talk) 15:05, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

::I would be surprised if there is code in the default AutoEd setup that adds a closing slash to [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2F%5C%3Creferences%5C%3E%2F&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1&ns4=1&ns10=1&ns12=1 <references>, which is used in 4,000 articles]. I suspect that the editor did that one manually. User talk:Trivialist is probably the best place to raise this issue. – Jonesey95 (talk) 12:57, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

:::Actually, Wikipedia:AutoEd/htmltowikitext.js#L-18 does that by default. Aaron Liu (talk) 13:24, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

::::Well, color me surprised! That looks like a bug to me, since <references> is a supported feature of MediaWiki. That line should probably be removed from the AutoEd code. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:03, 29 October 2024 (UTC)

::::: It looks like that was fixed [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAutoEd%2Fhtmltowikitext.js&diff=1265777197&oldid=1199059360 here]. Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 19:35, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

AutoEd doesn't seem to be working on the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox using the Vector 2010 skin anymore. When I click on the "AutoEd" button, it opens the Edit window, but doesn't do anything. Oddly enough, Safari seems to be working just fine. —⁠k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 15:37, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

:Works for me. If you try that again after installing the "Show an alert when you encounter JavaScript errors" gadget, do you get any error messages? Or, if you know how to get there, are there any error messages in the dev console? Aaron Liu (talk) 15:55, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

::The really weird thing is... it started working after I enabled the "Show an alert when you encounter JavaScript errors" gadget! —⁠k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 16:14, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

:::...ah yes, a heisenbug Aaron Liu (talk) 16:51, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

{{edit request|WP:AutoEd/core.js}}

Please replace the target page with User:Aaron Liu/sandbox.js, which adds compatibility for the 2017 Wikitext editor that works with existing autoEdFunctions() configs. My IDE automatically formatted what I was working on, so see Special:Diff/1297550064/1297549236 for the differences. Aaron Liu (talk) 22:45, 26 June 2025 (UTC)