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(a)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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