On Dec 12, 2007 10:52 PM, River Tarnell
<river(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
so, the first thing i notice when editing
Wikipedia articles these days
is that they're full of <ref> tags that make it nearly impossible to
find the actual text of the article. the problem seems to be that the
entire reference is inline in the text. while this is useful for
locality of editing, wouldn't it be nice if it would be close to the
text, but not inline?
I think this, along with {{fact}} and other tags, should be moved out
of the edit box completely. People should be able to add meta data,
interlanguage links, references, trust values, feature stars, AfD
notices, stable version flags, and whatever else they like in a
separate overlay which readers and editors can turn on and off and can
edit in a separate place.
Angela
One somewhat ok solution I've seen is at [[Intelligent design]] where
the large
number of references in the lead necessitated the use of commenting REFERENCES
right before each string of refs.