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

[John Doe]

Im working on a toolserver based tool if anyone would be interested. Im
doing some basic parsing now.



On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:10 PM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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
>
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