[Wikia-l] Techs, I'd like a quick opinion on whether certain pre-processing whenediting is likely to be doable

[Randy Kramer]

On Friday 11 January 2008 08:44 am, Dan Kindsvater wrote:
> Well, today I'm not so sure we've got a compromise over on 
WP:User:Noetica/ActionMOSVP.  I have been told the same thing at Wikia by 
everyone who has given an opinion, but it will help if I can say "I asked on 
the mailing list and it was unanimous", so: does everyone agree that 
automatic insertion (i.e., by Mediawiki software) of hard spaces into 'p. 1', 
'10 AD', and other places where every newspaper and magazine would also 
protect against wrapping, is preferable to inserting any special markup by 
hand, and especially preferable to a big campaign to try to "educate" 
everyone on the issue?  Some of you have said that you feel strongly that you 
would prefer not to see markup that you have to explain to newbies if it can 
be done invisibly.  And of course, it would save everyone a lot of time, and 
it would guarantee that the lines wrap correctly in these cases.  It seems 
like a slam dunk to me, but there are some editors who are, shall we say, 
resistant.  - Dan

Two questions:

   * Is that scheme of (not) wrapping a universal standard?  (I know Strunk 
and White is not the right resource, but is it documented in some similar 
resource--I ask because I've never seen it.)

   * If an editor needs to override that scheme, is there a means to do so?

Randy Kramer