The system I have in mind has volunteers of all sorts of computer literacy levels entering data. I'd rather teach them a few bits of Wiki format to do exceptional things than to teach them HTML to do normal things.
Consider writing plain paragraphs separated by blank lines. (That's very easy to explain; it takes one sentence and people can remember it.)
In the system that expects input in HTML, all paragraphs will run together. You could add logic to turn two newlines into paragraph tags, but that's a heuristic so it'll fail in odd ways sometimes, especially if the user has already added HTML.
In the system that expects Wiki formatting, those paragraphs turn into actual paragraphs, as if the user had used the formatting deliberately.
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