[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Article metadata separation from main wikitext

[stevertigo]

> 2009/9/18 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:
>> Yes, good, but {{reflist}} is also progress and needs to be made compatible.
David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Shirley {{reflist}} should be made options for <references>. Does it
> do anything other than pretty formatting?

Agree with David, and even without considering the superficial
differences, a hard-coded function should take preference over a
template hack. The latter doesn't appear to solve the present issue
which is editing being obstructed by large in-text citations. Andrew's
hack seems to be more than sufficient.

The issue then is that a bot would be relied upon to do the moves -
section edits means that adding citations will continue to work in the
normal in-text fashion, and even in less common full-page edits we
don't necessarily expect people to manually put citations in the
references section. So.. a massive wave of site-wide bot-edits
followed by a persistent bot?

Be interesting to see if just leaving a site-wide worknote above the
titlespace would get most of the job done with user cycles.

-Stevertigo