[WikiEN-l] Well-sourced nonsense vs. unsourced competence

[FT2]

Indeed. It was a milestone compared to what went before, and enabled citing
to become a norm or expectation (rather than an option) in practice not just
theory.

But its some years on and we're in the #5 and useability... methynks we can
do better still :)

FT2


On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:31 PM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:

> FT2<ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Actually is there a reason why refs couldn't have a separate section?
> > The main disadvantage would be technical - revision data held in an extra
> > field.
>
> IIRC Greg Maxwell mentioned something about this a couple years ago.
> He acknowledged the issue of diminished edit-mode readability was
> valid, but there was a technical and practical issue with putting refs
> in a separate section. At the time, as his <refs> setup was new and
> quite an improvement over the previous, so there wasn't much interest
> in improving its inferface issues.
>
> -Stevertigo
>
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