On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:22 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/12/4 Thomas Larsen
<larsen.thomas.h(a)gmail.com>om>:
Perhaps it's worth the cost of having a few
orphaned refs to set up an easier-to-use system. (Of course, we could
always have Special:OrphanedRefs :-).)
It's not a few it tends to be rather a lot. Trying to keep two
different sections of wikicode in sync is a fairly significant effort.
The problem with the prior methods of doing references was that they
associated references with footnote numbers only by order of use in
the text, which meant that any moving things around broke the system.
A system which used named reference IDs in some form would be more
robust.
-Matt