On 2 May 2011 13:09, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Maury Markowitz
<maury.markowitz(a)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.