On 31 May 2010 23:37, Steve VanSlyck s.vanslyck@spamcop.net wrote:
(b) doesn't cope very well with the weirdest stuff done on English Wikipedia, where wikitext is tortured horribly to squeeze out every possible emergent side-effect for editor's use.
?????
en:wp not only uses ridiculous contortions of wikitext routinely, it seems to iteratively explore the furthest reaches of stuff that the parser just *happens* to do then turn them into normal parts of editing. That's why new editors hit "edit" on en:wp, are confronted with what may as well be an uneditable binary and run away never to hit "edit" again [*].
- d.
[*] possibly a slight exaggeration