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Personally, this is why I prefer to have the <ref> and {cite}
data pasted in columnar format (each option on a separate line).
It is invisible when reading the page, and it has the non-text
ref stuff stand out noticeably in edit mode. When the ref is in-
line in the edits, it can sometimes be impossible to determine
what is text and what is a ref.
- --Avi
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On Dec 12, 2007 11:11 AM, <wikien-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
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From: "David Gerard" <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:24:17 +0000
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] that awful <ref> syntax
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From: River Tarnell <river(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 12 Dec 2007 11:52
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] that awful <ref> syntax
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
<mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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?
for example, references could be named and referred to with [name], and
then defined at the end of each paragraph:
Wikipedia[wikip] is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation[wmf].
[wikip]
http://en.wikipedia.org/
[wmf]
http://wikimediafoundation.org/
now, it's still easy to see and change the references, but you can
actually see the article text as well.
for an example from a real Wikipedia article, see
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kate/ref>.
of course this would require some changes to the core parser to do
properly, but i think the feature is useful enough to be worth it.
comments?
- river.
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