On Dec 12, 2007 8:39 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
The other user helping with this article is an academic expert. So I
wanted
to make the references simple as could be and just did them like this <ref>Rotter (1954)</ref> or like this <ref>Millon (2004), p. 353</ref>
The
list of books and websites is at the bottom of the page. With websites
as
links, this does not work an obviously simple way, though.
With that you have to follow the footnote, read the short form of the reference and then manually find the long form. With only a few references, it's not too bad, but that system certainly doesn't scale to pages with dozens of references.
Started doing it that way here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitut...
There are 48 references, so far. I will use the short format like this, when the reference is cited repeatedly in the article. If it cited just once, then I will write out the full reference inside the tag. Or put the web citation in the tag. Not ideal but it works. I'm certainly open to trying other methods of handling references.
Maybe it would be worthwhile for us to do usability testing on different referencing methods. Some usability testing was done on the German Wikipedia, a few years ago. This would allow us to test the interface with general people, rather than experienced Wikipedians. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability
-Aude