[WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] Article metadata separation from main wikitext

[Apoc 2400]

See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Footnotes#cite.php_update
{{Reflist}} has already been changed to allow:
{{reflist|
refs=
<ref name="refname1">content1</ref>
<ref name="refname2">content2</ref>
<ref name="refname3">content3</ref>
}}

A little ugly, but everyone copy-pastes anyway.
Also take a look at the discussion here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Footnotes_update

If I may push my most radical suggestion, I want i.e. <<Smith2006>> to be a
shortcut for <ref name="Smith2006" /> allowing for very short references in
text.