On 11-05-02 08:12 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
On 2 May 2011 15:31, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 2 May 2011 15:27, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
The normalisation only really needs to happen once, though. There may be a few little bits where people have made wikitext edits since the last WYSIWYG edit, but the whole article will only need to be normalised the first time there is a WYSIWYG edit.
Only if you immediately go all-WYSIWYG and no-one is ever allowed to directly edit wikitext ever again. This strikes me as likely to go over very badly indeed.
No. I clearly said there would be small amounts of normalisation to deal with new wikitext edits, but that the whole article would only need to be normalised once. I was not assuming we would do away with wikitext editing entirely (and wouldn't support doing so).
He might be alluding to the fact that even after you normalize it, someone not using WYSIWYG can go and make an edit that happens to use pre-normalized stuff, and as a result that gets messed up the next time someone edits using a WYSIWYG editor.
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