Question: why does it have to normalise at all? I do think that the editing environment at Wikipedia means that consistent non-normalised editing by wikitext users and subsequent normalisation by anyone using WYSIWYG would be messy and disruptive, but would a change whereby it more precisely records the wikitext, and then doesn't try and change it unless that part of the document is edited, be feasible?
On 2 May 2011 19:34, Mark A. Hershberger <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> writes: > > > On 2 May 2011 13:09, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Maury Markowitz > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Editors do this all the time anyway. Typically using automated tools > >>> so they don't have to do any actual work. > >>> > >> Sure, but those aren't typically mixed with "real" changes in the same > >> edit. That's what was hard: spotting the actual changes in the midst > >> of all the normalization noise. > > > > The normalisation only really needs to happen once, though. > > What about combining the benefits of separated automatic edits with the > ease of WYSIWYG modification? > > Upon starting to edit the page the WYSIWYG editor automatically makes a > “normalization” edit. Such edits are noted with the comment “WYSIWYG > Normalization” or some such so that they're easy to find. > > When the user clicks “Save page”, a separate edit is made containing > just the user's changes. > > This seems like it would preserve the usefulness of diffs, doesn't it? > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
