Ryan Lomonaco wrote: > I think this has been brought up before, but a thought I've had: Apart from > the fact that it will require a ton of work in coding, what would keep us > from separating templates (and, for that matter, images) from the article > text? Article text would exist by itself, and categories, templates, images > and metadata would all be kept and edited separately from the article > itself, with "pointers" indicating where the templates and images should go > within the article.
Nothing. But images and /some/ inline templates can't be done that way since they also need a "position". That can be automated for eg. license templates, or infoboxes, but not for a template formatting a quote. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l