On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 6:14 PM, S Page <spage@wikimedia.org> wrote:

In the case of entities existing within a paragraph, we can decide (with a little help from Design) whether it's important to keep them inline with the text, or strip and move them outside of the paragraph.

Will clients be able to request different kinds of stripping? It seems really hard.

It's even harder if you want it to work outside the English Wikipedia - different wikis might use different templates which generate slightly different HTML.

The skinnable content snippets proposal from the brainstorming could be abused to handle this:

** Explore the possibility of wikitext markup for handling over control over sections of content to the skin (like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T25796 but bigger / more generic; Winter had some great design ideas that could be implemented with such a feature)

Editors would write something like this in the source code:

'''Vincent Willem van Gogh''' {{#snippet|role=pronunciation|IPA=ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləm vɑn ˈɣɔx}}{{#snippet|role=birth and death|birth=30 March 1853|death=29 July 1890}} was a major [[Post-Impressionist]] painter.

and the snippets would turn into different templates on different devices/skins, in some cases not producing wikicode output at all but instead pushing the information to a side channel.