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@wikimedia.org http://werdn.us/