Cross-posted to wikien-l and wikitech-l.
David Gerard wrote:
On 13/10/2007, Phil Sandifer
<Snowspinner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
At the very least, we should move things like
WikiProjects, GA
nomination statuses, and other such pieces of processcruft to a
subpage and transclude it so that newbies trying to discuss on talk
pages just get "{{single template link}}". We could probably afford
to do the same with infoboxes and the like on main articles - move
them to a subpage and transclude a single template. Yes, it makes
editing the infobox a step less intuitive, but someone who can't
figure that step out probably can't handle the template syntax anyway.
That'sa fantastically good idea! See if it flies on the Village Pump,
etc. A bot run would be enough once you have something acceptable to
the VP and the most template-heavy projects.
I don't think it's a good idea at all.
Instead, I would suggest having two edit boxes on the edit page -- one
at the top for templates, and a second one for the main article text.
The one at the top would be hidden by default, you would click a button
to expand it.
The dividing line between the two would be determined heuristically on
the server side.
A link would be provided to a non-JS version of the edit page, for
compatibility. A user preference could also be added.
Contrary to popular belief, PHP programming is not impossible.
-- Tim Starling