Sounds like a good candidate for a Beta Feature
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On Wednesday, November 13, 2013, Brion Vibber 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
Yeah having to scroll up and down the page at all is bad.
For reference here ;) I think enwiki has solved this problem partially
with Yair Rand's Reference Tooltips.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reference_Tooltips<http://m.mediawiki.org/…
I think that's implemented as a site wide gadget on enwiki still? It might
be a good hacking project (OPW or GSOC?) to turn it in to an extension with
accompanying i18n. Or maybe in the long run it should be packaged with the
rest of the logic that generates refs, instead of being a standalone
enhancement.
Steven
On Nov 12, 2013 12:22 PM, "Quiddity" <pandiculation(a)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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