Brion, agreed. I'd love to see a total overhaul of the ref section, I know Kaity had started thinking about it at one point. maybe she'd be interested in spending an Explore day sometime soon sketching some ideas.

a lightbox or fixed bottom element might be a cool way to handle seeing them on page, although some of the ref sections can get monstrous and might not fit that formfactor.



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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber@wikimedia.org> wrote:

I would strongly consider totally redoing how references are displayed to use a popup light box with citation cut n paste tools.

No caret or arrow needed for return in this situation... :)

-- brion

On Nov 12, 2013 12:22 PM, "Quiddity" <pandiculation@gmail.com> wrote:
Most Wikimedia sites use the mediawiki default of an Arrow ↑ to backlink from citation-contents to the superscripted number/letter.

English Wikipedia changed the default in 2006, to use a caret ^ and a few dozen other wikis have copied that.

We'd like to examine the problems with the Arrow, to see if they can be fixed.

We need help browser-testing and diagnosing and fixing the problem(s).

This may have strong relevancy to the Typography Update in Beta Features.

I've tried to summarize everything so far, at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Cite_messages#Testing_and_summary_so_far

Thanks!
Quiddity

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