https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31227

--- Comment #1 from Brion Vibber <[email protected]> 2011-09-28 20:57:12 UTC 
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A single newline in input text terminates a line, but doesn't terminate a
paragraph in MediaWiki's wiki text format (and never has), so changing this
could be a compatibility issue and cause pages to render incorrectly.

Various sequences with templates, tables etc will also be assuming that the
linebreak is ok as whitespace and might be modified unpleasantly by just
inserting a <br> into output there, so not sure how trivial it would be to do.

You can insert an explicit <br> in your input to force a visible line break
within a paragraph, though. The <poem> extension tag can also be used to insert
line breaks at source newline boundaries within a paragraph.

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