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In T107595#2701875, @Pppery wrote:Why? What is wrong with the page assessment being stored in wikitext? Seperate editors for TemplateData and categories already exist and I see no need to split these out further.
The people who write specialized editors like that are exactly the ones who want MCR most. Because it's really hard to get this right. For instance, how can you find all category links on a page? You need to know all local aliases for the category namespace, you have to know which tag extensions accept wikitext (<poem> does, but <source> doesn't), and if the category link is in a template parameter, you have no idea whether it is *actually* a category link, or just looks like one.
And if you add a category, we save a new copy of the entire page, instead of just the bit that changed.
Yes, these tools exist, but they unreliable, hard to maintain, and inefficient. That's exactly how the idea for MCR was born.
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