On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Alex <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?
>

Indeed, that's the nicest thing to do.

-- brion
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