Brion Vibber wrote:

> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Alex <alejrb at gmail.com> 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.

Better, but not good. Since diffs can span several edits, it
is not really going to be helpful in many instances.

-- 
Greetings - Purodha

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