User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Try the New Wikia Editor/@comment-3337043-20110622050454/@comment-126761-20110622122226

And, for what it's worth, it's not supposed to :) We're working on improving it all the time: if you come across edits where it is doing bad things, please do send them (the diffs, preferably) along to Special:Contact. Wikitext is a complex beast, and we're always trying to improve our parser.