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

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@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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