On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Alex alejrb@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.
-- brion