On 9/5/07, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)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.