On 10/14/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
Maybe a type of section break that does not produce a visible header or appear in the TOC would be useful. This could be put at the end of infobox template code. Then follow it up having a slightly more intelligent section-edit url syntax that corresponds with the TOC (decimal points, etc, so the infobox would be section "0.0") and also allow editing of a specified range of sections. Probably in this case it would be everything from "0.1" to the end (or earlier if we wanted to disregard stuff at the bottom).
Might be a bit more hackish but it might be of more general usefulness than just ignoring infoboxes when editing.
—C.W.