https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53566

--- Comment #6 from Bawolff (Brian Wolff) <[email protected]> ---
>The advantage of storing this metadata is that it allows for a large amount of
>semantic information about the title which can be used not only for linking but
>potentially for customised display options and doubtless more that I haven't
>thought of.

That's certainly true. 
-----

My initial reaction is that the user is probably in a better position to decide
how to capitalize/italicize the title in a given context than software would
be, but if such formatting of titles is consistent, I suppose it could make
sense to automatically do it.

>I'm told that it needs to be moved out of templates for VE to support.

It should not need that to *use* the data. To effectively edit the displaytitle
data, it may need that.

>I don't
>know why.
>More philosophical, but I was under the impression that the long term goal was
>to separate metadata from content?

Some folks have that goal. Personally I think that doing so would reduce the
power of mediawiki significantly, although my opinion may be a minority one.
(And probably offtopic for this bug report)

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