On Fri, 14 Apr 2006, Rob Church wrote:
On 09/04/06, Michael Dorosh madorosh@shaw.ca wrote:
What I want to accomplish is this:
[...snippety snip...]
I also don't want to have to manually number the references but have
them automatically >sorted. I know Wikipedia does this, I just don't understand how to make it work on my own.
Historically, Wikipedia users used an ugly system of {{note}} and {{ref}} templates which, with some voodoo magic and a lot of sweating and swearing, achieved the desired result, after a fashion.
Avar later wrote a Cite extension which is now in use on the site; and users are converting articles over to use it. It's cleaner, tidier and sleeker, and it does all sorts of automagical things to references.
Speaking of automagical things, my Biblio extension* is somewhat more convenient for citing biomedical literature, since you don't have to copy and format the bibliographic record yourself. I'd be glad to work on an merge with Cite if the folks at Wikipedia are interested.
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Biblio Example: http://wikiomics.org/wiki/Searching_for_3D_functional_sites_in_a_protein_str...
The main difference, that some people could see as an obstacle, but which in general is an advantage, is that the source information is not duplicated manually, it stays on the PubMed SOAP server (NCBI eUtilities). If the server is down, it is in my opinion not worse than a dead link anyway. PubMed is used by just everyone in all academic fields which have something to do with biology.
Martin
As far as I know, both these methods rely upon features of the parser which are not present below MediaWiki 1.6.0. More information on the Cite extension can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite/Cite.php.
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