On 9/5/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/5/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
That will mangle attempts to do standard administrative history and link references in the context of an inline discussion on a talk or notice page, though...
That's because the referencing section isn't flexible enough (yet). It's also not possible to have multiple footnotes sections, for example. Perhaps some more magic words would help:
{{EXPANDREFS}} - render <ref>foo</ref> as [foo] or something, until further notice. {{URLSTOREFS}} - automatically convert [http://foo.com] to something like <ref>http://foo.com</ref>. This would solve the problem of talk pages, as that tag wouldn't be present on the talk page, so it would render normally...
(that second magic word might have to be reworded, it's pretty unreadable :)
Steve
Seems overly complicated. Why not just have a bot go through and change all the instances of [url] (in the article namespace) to <ref>url</ref>, and add a references section if necessary?
There really are two separate issues. That the numbering schemes clash is one valid issue. That the English Wikipedia has deprecated the use of these types of links is another.