2009/9/17 Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com:
So, milder proposal: how do people feel about moving all (non-templated) metadata to the bottom of the page at save time? It's not a huge benefit by itself, but it allows that metadata to be edited separately without having to guess where it came from. And dear god do we need to get references separated out from the main text...
I don't know about other wikis, but quite a few en:wp cleanup bots and semibots (notably AutoWikiBrowser) do this automatically when doing other stuff.
Somehow I suspect the most controversial thing about doing that would be the massive war that would erupt between those who want interwiki links first and those who want categories first...
%-D
If it's made a preference, don't forget "random" and "interleave"!
- d.