Help:Extension:Linter

The  extension provides a list of errors found in pages, and attempts to provide guidance in resolving them. The Special:LintErrors page groups the errors by type.

As of April 12, 2017, this extension is now live on all wikis. We are noticing that in some cases, it is hard to figure out what exactly to fix based on the linter output. The stripped-tag and missing-end-tag categories are especially opaque in a lot of cases. Some of this noisiness is also related to this parser bug T134469 which Tidy somehow works around in some strange fashion. But, with Parsoid (which replicates that bug faithfully) and RemexHTML, that bug is exposed. Since Linter output is based on Parsoid, we get a lot of stripped-tag and missing-end-tag linter output.

So, there is still a bunch of work to do to eliminate noise and make the linter output more actionable. We will also try to provide more guidance about things that should definitely be fixed. So, this should definitely be considered Work In Progress at this time.

deletable-table-tag
Help:Extension:Linter/deletable-table-tag

misnested-tag
Help:Extension:Linter/misnested-tag