From: Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca
Hopefully the new cite.php reference formatting will help in this regard. Reference text can now be bundled directly with the text that it is a reference for with the list of references at the bottom of the page being automatically compiled from that. It makes it impossible to have "orphan references" now, and perhaps having the full description of the referenced material in place will make it harder for an editor to accidentally delete it when removing unrelated material.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for anyone who was unaware of the new system. I'm loving it. :)
Oh, I should have said something nice about it in the first place. It is, literally, a dream come true.
<hip></hip><hooray/>!
I only wish (well, you knew that was coming) that there was a way for a reader to hide/show the superscripted links to the references.
On 4/11/06, Daniel P. B. Smith wikipedia2006@dpbsmith.com wrote:
I only wish (well, you knew that was coming) that there was a way for a reader to hide/show the superscripted links to the references.
Presuming you mean the <ref>s in the article text to the part generated by the <references/> tag, you can get rid of them in user css:
.reference {display:none;}
Is that what you were thinking of?
-- Sam
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Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
From: Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca
Hopefully the new cite.php reference formatting will help in this regard. Reference text can now be bundled directly with the text that it is a reference for with the list of references at the bottom of the page being automatically compiled from that. It makes it impossible to have "orphan references" now, and perhaps having the full description of the referenced material in place will make it harder for an editor to accidentally delete it when removing unrelated material.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for anyone who was unaware of the new system. I'm loving it. :)
Oh, I should have said something nice about it in the first place. It is, literally, a dream come true.
<hip></hip><hooray/>!
I only wish (well, you knew that was coming) that there was a way for a reader to hide/show the superscripted links to the references.
By the way, I've created a references converter that does a pretty good job of automatically converting from the old {{ref}} and {{note}} format into the new <ref> format. Check it out here: http://teamgamer.org/cgi-bin/wikirefs.pl
Just make sure to follow the instructions to the letter.
- -- Ben McIlwain ("Cyde Weys")
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Ben McIlwain wrote:
By the way, I've created a references converter that does a pretty good job of automatically converting from the old {{ref}} and {{note}} format into the new <ref> format. Check it out here: http://teamgamer.org/cgi-bin/wikirefs.pl
Just make sure to follow the instructions to the letter.
Ooh, beautiful! I've never used any "helper" applications before, but this one I think I'll give some exercise to. :)