I'd love to get an answer from the techs that would help us avoid a fight which is a few days away from spilling into WP:Village Pump that concerns a wikimedia-wide issue. The question is: if Wikimedia is given a list of rules for phrases that should never wrap..."p. 1", "8 sq ft", "10 AD", etc...would it be too much of a drain on the system to check the diff every time someone makes an edit and insert the proper code? (Probably best would simply be the unicode for no-break space, which would act properly and "invisibly".)
For the last month, I've been talking with a group of editors who feel strongly (and they're willing to turn this into a big fight, I'm trying to avoid the fight) that, since parts of Wikipedia are being distributed in DVD and printed form, and since and we're getting more cheap shots about appearance, it's time to follow the same rules for line-wrapping that all pretty printed material (and even serious blogging) does. They're proposing to do this with new markup and a new push to "strongly encourage" all editors to use proper line-wrapping markup; I think we ought to join the modern world and do it the same way everyone else does it, with rules implemented by software, usually. As I say, the argument is initially about WP, but the software solution I propose needs help from Wikimedia techs, and would probably affect Wikia now or in the future, so I'm hoping this list is appropriate for the question...I'm more active at Wikia than WP, I figure you guys have seen me and know that I'm not ranting :) Dan, Dank55, #wikia-de, #wikia, #wikiversity-en, generally hanging around [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
