On 2 May 2011 13:09, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Maury Markowitz maury.markowitz@gmail.com wrote:
Editors do this all the time anyway. Typically using automated tools so they don't have to do any actual work. Surely someone here has had to wade through someone changing every REF to that bag of hammers CITE tag.
Sure, but those aren't typically mixed with "real" changes in the same edit. That's what was hard: spotting the actual changes in the midst of all the normalization noise.
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.