Forum:Rich text editor spams whitespace

Recently the Rich Text Editor was activated on my wiki. It does the trick of attracting more editors but it also gives some problems.
 * It frequently adds many empty lines that don't make sense. One user even managed to create a 70k whitespace userpage by adding 7 user templates. It's no fun to undo that.
 * On many mainspace articles it also 'randomly' inserts &nbps; (miss-spelled on purpose otherwise it disappears). Im used to not using the Rich text editor so these extras are extremely annoying to see and i always remove them.
 * Lastly, it also adds    where a new lines is started. This also makes a text very hard to read when not using the Rich text editor.

How do other Wikis deal with this or is there a way to modify the behaviour of the Rich text editor so it doesn't do these things anymore? Ruderion (Talk-home)

I've never seen the  glitch before (thankfully, as there are already enough of them as it is), but I experience the other two glitches regularly. From what I can tell, this is the best thing to do until a fix is released for it (if they can fix it): Try not to hold the shift key when pressing the space bar as you type (may cause the &nbps; problem). Also, use the "show changes" option immediately underneath the editing window to check for instances of the glitches in your edit. As it is linked to the Rich Text Editor, you need to use the wikitext editor to remove the glitch. Then and only then do you save the file. I created a forum and added messages about it in the community corner on our wiki to increase awareness of it, but a lot of editors don't see these things. But if you can at least get the regular users aware of it, then it should help a lot. -- Yyp  (Talk)  15:16, December 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you, at least now i know its not something i missed. Unfortunately, my wiki doesnt have many regular users (yet) so most edits are from inexperienced editors. I will just have to keep editing out all the glitches i suppose. With a max of 10-20 edits a day it should be managable. Just hope they will fix it soon. 22:57, December 28, 2009 (UTC)


 * I have seen the non breaking space problem too.
 * Perticularly when annon edit a page that contain the colon character.
 * Sadly, what i do is revert their edit.
 * Then, i have a hard time finding what they wanted to edit. Most of the time it's a tiny thing on the page but the rich editor insert bugs everywhere on it. Here a few examples :
 * http://fr.guildwars.wikia.com/index.php?title=D%C3%A9fi_zaishen&curid=26652&diff=83783&oldid=83345
 * http://fr.guildwars.wikia.com/index.php?title=Retrouver_le_Tome_orrien/Contenu&diff=prev&oldid=82970
 * http://fr.guildwars.wikia.com/index.php?title=Choisir_une_profession_secondaire_(Factions)/Contenu&diff=prev&oldid=82284
 * — TulipVorlax 00:09, December 29, 2009 (UTC)

This is a constant annoyance for me. I've only encountered the massive spacing once or twice, but removing that annoying code from articles is starting to become a daily routine for me. - Brandon Rhea (talk) 06:55, December 29, 2009 (UTC)


 * User_blog:Najevi/Should_a_wiki_editor_focus_on_content_or_style_or_education_or_all_3 -- najevi 09:03, December 29, 2009 (UTC)