On Dec 12, 2007 8:39 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)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_Constitu…
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