On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:40 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

It doesn't seem clear to the user just what changed on many lines of http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Allen_Swift&action=historysubm... E.g., |-+----------------------------------------------------------+-+----------------------------------------------------------| |-|| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =                                     |+|| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =                                     | |-+----------------------------------------------------------+-+----------------------------------------------------------| |-|| SHORT DESCRIPTION =                                     |+|| SHORT DESCRIPTION =                                     | |-+----------------------------------------------------------+-+----------------------------------------------------------| Maybe it is removing or adding invisible characters or something. True I could use action=raw to see what was really in there, but to the average user it looks like one big head scratcher.

Checking the edit page before and after, I found that the difference in those lines is adding a space after the =. Unfortunately such end-of-line spaces are not shown in the diff tool.