Phil Sandifer wrote:
On Sep 29, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Jake Waskett wrote:
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 14:15 -0400, Robth wrote:
The problem is to balance the desire for this kind of verifiability with the desire not to clutter up the article excessively.
What's wrong with a technical solution? Write the article with lots of inline references, but make it a user preference whether or not to show them.
Go write the code.
You're being needlessly brusque, and also misleading. Do you mean that only people who have the time and ability to actually do Wikimedia programming get to decide what Wikipedia looks like and how it functions? If I were to sit down and write the code to add a preference allowing users to add blink tags to all wikilinks, that'd go in without any discussion by non-coders? I wouldn't think so. Programmers with any sense of professionalism should pay at least a little attention to what the users of their software say about it.
That all said, I just checked the source HTML and see that references have 'class="reference"' in the <sup> tags. I suspect a very simple stylesheet change is all that's needed, not something that would trouble programmers.