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

[Surreptitiousness]

Gwern Branwen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Now we can {{note|foo}}^W^W{{r|foo}} like it's 2005!
>>>
>>> But seriously, I find this discouraging - a sign of dysfunctionality.
>>> All the work put in to switch to <ref> and now we're switching *back*
>>> to something I find indistinguishable from the original? I guess I'll
>>> be opting out of whatever the next switch will be...
>>>       
>> Hmm, I don't recall how {{note}} worked - is the current template what
>> you're referring to?
>>     
>
> Not sure. I drank the <ref> kool-aid and haven't used {{note}} in years.
>   
[[Wikipedia:Footnote3]] explains it all.  I can't work out the 
difference, except maybe it took Dragons flight a lot of work to give us 
what we already had?