On 16/09/2009, at 10:01 AM, Magnus Manske wrote:
Not sure if this was considered:
* Categories (in the page, not in templates), language links, and
magic words (NOTOC) are position-independent within a page
* They are also relatively easy to extract from the wikitext (regexp
should do, after removing HTML comments and nowiki; I did something
like that in JS a while ago, should be much easier if supported from
PHP)
* They clutter the text (even though they tend to be towards the end
of the text), and might scare off newbies
* They can be represented in separate visual elements (toggles, lists,
or some JS as I did with hotcat)
Any plans of separating these on edit, then re-attach them to the text
on saving? It's low-hanging fruit IMHO.
I've added an experimental AJAX management interface for categories
(like HotCat, but good). It requires the JS2 system to be enabled
(which might be a while).
I'm not sure that it's strictly necessary to actually pull it all out
of the wikitext, because it usually just sits at the bottom, out of
everybody's way.
--
Andrew Garrett
agarrett(a)wikimedia.org
http://werdn.us/