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

[Gwern Branwen]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Apparently the new cool thing to do is {{r|foo}} rather than <ref
> name="foo" />. Works for me.

Now we can {{note|foo}}^W^W{{r|foo}} like it's 2005!

But seriously, I find this discouraging - a sign of dysfunctionality.
All the work put in to switch to <ref> and now we're switching *back*
to something I find indistinguishable from the original? I guess I'll
be opting out of whatever the next switch will be...

-- 
gwern