I've had this idea kicking around in my mind for a while. What would people think about a third tab for references. ie. The main article tab, the talk tab, and the references tab, and the subscripted numbers (or whatever) would be links to the references tab. i mentioned this to tim starling, and i dont think that he saw any particualarly big tech problem with this.
paz y amor, [[User:The bellman]]
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:33:59 -0800, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
At 09:48 AM 12/12/2004 +1100, David Gerard wrote:
What we need is to encourage a culture of including references. I'm trying to get myself better at this ... If we can get the reference syntax implemented, that would help tremendously. (And I'm dreaming of it doing fancy reference-indexing things.)
Once upon a time long long ago I remember putting in a feature request for a simple "footnote" markup, along the lines of adding [[Note:blah blah blah]] anywhere in the article and having it turn into a superscripted number linking to an anchor for the text "blah blah blah" down at the very bottom of the page. Something like that could be suitable for references too, though it wouldn't be nice for making multiple references to the same source scattered throughout an article. Maybe a [[Ref:blah blah blah]] markup that automatically combines identical "blah blah" text into the same reference at the bottom?
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