Here's a link to a pdf showing designs for reference
tooltips<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reference-tooltips-Apr.…df>.
The 1st 3 pages show desktop designs with different options.
*Page 1* If we can parse a reference and determine if it includes a common
template, we can indicate with an icon which type it is (book, web, news...)
If we can determine the title parameter, we can highlight or bold that in
the reference so its more readable.
We could also pull the lead image if there's a wikipedia article linked in
the ref.
*Page 2 *If we don't want to bother with all that, the formatting isn't
changed.
*Page 3* If we parse the template type and each of the parameters. We can
totally reformat the reference to show title, source, and date, then show
other parameters with labels if a user taps to expand. This is the cleanest
and most readable, but may take more work.
*Page 4 *Showing simple version in app context.
What do you think, should we show image thumbnails? Can we parse the
templates and all parameters?
If you're interested there's more background on the design on
mediawiki<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reference_readability>
.
Thanks!
Kaity