On Sep 24, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Liz Kim wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know a way to manipulate the referencing style in wiki?
For example,
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xyz <ref name=xyz:1>Some descriptions</ref>
<references/>
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will produce something like:
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xyz [1]
1. Some descriptions
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and I would like to be able to edit the [1].
Instead of having all the footnotes be numbered,
I would like to name them myself and have the footnotes be organized
alphabetically.
For example, I would like to view results such as:
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xxx[Smith 2000]
yyy[Adams 2007]
zzz[Thomas 2002]
While this is my preferred form of citation using Endnote in Word
docs, I think there are some costs you should consider before going
for that citation style. In particular, it would require you to
limit what users can put inside ref tags to only those things that
can be parsed as having Author-Year. You also have to deal with the
whole Smith 2000a vs. Smith 2000b etc. and how those would change
during editing of a wiki page.
I can't imagine doing this using templates and Cite.php without some
major modifications of the cite codebase. And then you'd have
something that breaks backward compatibility with lots of other wikis.
Just my $0.02. The other thread was more about how to make the
material in the wikitext inside the ref tag more concise. I don't
think it branched into changing to a different citation style (but
I've fallen behind in the thread, so maybe it's gone there since my
last reading).
Adams 2007: Some descriptions
Smith 2000: Some descriptions
Thomas 2002: Some descriptions
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Perhaps some sort of a template?
Any input would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
-- LK
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