Be it a webism or not, HTML folds whitespace, so 'implementing' anything to do with double spaces has nothing to do with MediaWiki. The software does not render anything, any double space you enter is outputted verbose to the browser, the browser is what does the rendering and folding of that whitespace.
However you may not want to pick out TinyMCE as the WYSIWYG editor to use. Not for it being feature lacking, but at the current point in time it appears accepted that the FCKeditor MediaWiki implementation has done the best job of acting as a WYSIWYG editor for MediaWiki. TinyMCE appears to have other whitespace related bugs, and does not appear to have been developed as actively as the FCKeditor for MediaWiki has. Though, that said, even the /top/ pick for MediaWiki WYSIWYG editors still isn't bug less, short use of even that editor can lead to strange things inside of the WikiText.
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John van V. wrote:
I considered attempting to install TinyMCE because my use for Mediawiki right now is to develop technical documents, and also social science arguments about <see sig>
What troubles me about the Mediawiki editor is not the small feature set, but the lack of double spaces between sentences. This "webism" forces me to use M$ Word in the library, which scans for this writing error.
I read that there had been problems, so I went to the Moxiecode owned Mediawiki, and the Moxie coders have not themselves implemented it there, so....
~~John
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