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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
