Last modified: 2013-10-14 15:18:13 UTC
In a recent change to the Wikipedia software (not sure exactly when - in the last month) the font used in the editing box when using Chrome changed from the Fixed format font to the Sans-Serif font which is the same font used in the article bodies. This causes significant problems when editing as it is a proportional font instead of a fixed font so difficult to format. This problem does not occur in the French wikipedia and seems to be confined to the English one. The problem also does not occur in this Bugzilla software. To replicate I suggest editing (using the old edit) any article with an Infobox - e.g. Allemand - and the problem can be clearly seen in the edit box.
On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing under "Editor > Edit area font style", what is your setting?
Thanks for your reply. You are right the setting was "Browser Default". I have now changed to "Monospaced font" and this fixes the problem. I also changed this on French wikipedia. Even so I have never changed this as I did not know of its existence so somehow it got changed. Hopefully it will not change again. Thanks for your help. Best Regards, Gavin Munro
