On 3 May 2011 17:04, Purodha Blissenbach wikitech-l@publi.purodha.net wrote:
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.
You would still only see normalisation of parts of the article that had changed, it's just that there would be more parts that have changed. I don't see any real difference between a one edit diff and a multi-edit diff for these purposes.