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
It would be better, I think, to have a namespace-based variable for "old / current style", "convert to new inline form", and "convert to a <ref> tag".
New inline on Wikipedia: and Talk: and User / User talk:, convert to ref tag on article space?
Perhaps allow an inline keyword override, but a default to "do the right contextual thing" which is almost certainly correctly based on the namespace seems like the first thing to do if you're going to do anything here...