On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Good question. IMHO, all position independent stuff
(ie, metadata)
would be better off saved separately, and edited separately. As a
legacy solution, users could still type [[Category:Blah]] in the main
edit box, but at save time, it would be moved to the metadata area.
This is simply not feasible as long as we have templates. Templates
can contain both position-dependent data and metadata, and the
template reference needs to be stored with the data to preserve the
position. This means the metadata inherently depends on the page
text.