On 9/18/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 17/09/2007, Michael Daly
<michaeldaly(a)kayakwiki.org> wrote:
The only thing I would like is to have in
addition is a central pool of
references. I have put together several pages recently, all on related
topics and all using some common refs. However, I have to put them into
each article separately. Since I copied and pasted from one page to the
next, when I found an error in the original ref, I had to find all the
others to correct.
If refs had a status comparable to images, they could be inserted in any
article with minimal effort. One could have a "where used" function -
"show all articles that reference this author" etc. I realize this is
not a trivial effort, but I like to dream.
If someone can write code for this, English Wikipedia would dive upon
it with great glee.
As far as I understand the proposal, it's perfectly possible to
implement immediately with no code changes. Just create a page, say
Wikipedia:Refs, and make a subpage for each reference you want.
Later, if it catches on, you can convert it to a proper namespace.