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 [email protected] http://werdn.us/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
