On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've had a similar experience on a wiki I was involved in about 3-4 > years ago. We gave the editor a try, but every time you edited an > article, no matter how small the edit, the editor would go ahead and > "normalize" all links of the form [[Foo]] to [[Foo|Foo]]. In a > several-kilobyte encyclopedic article with links in every other > sentence, this produces an enormous diff that makes it impossible to > tell what the real change was.
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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
