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 <jmh...@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 <jmh...@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_ >> >> 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 Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
