Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: >> Good question. IMHO, all position independent stuff (ie, metadata) >> would be better off saved separately, and edited separately. As a >> legacy solution, users could still type [[Category:Blah]] in the main >> edit box, but at save time, it would be moved to the metadata area. > > This is simply not feasible as long as we have templates. Templates > can contain both position-dependent data and metadata, and the > template reference needs to be stored with the data to preserve the > position. This means the metadata inherently depends on the page > text.
And if it were changed, templates *should* be able to continue being a source of metadata. So I think that requirement blocks changing the way categories are stored. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
