On 12/6/05, Jonathan Leybovich <jleybov(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Anthony
DiPierro wrote:
Maybe complicated isn't what I'm looking for. But
consider the
following and whether or not you'd enjoy editing it
by hand:
'''Roy [[cite:ISBN:123456789:p. 7|"Roy Orbison's
middle name is
Kelton"|"Kelton"]] Orbison'''
([[cite:ISBN:123456789:p.9|"He was born
in Foo, Bar on April 23 of 1936"|"[[April 23]],
[[1936]]"]] –
[[cite:ISBN:123456789:p.11|"He died that same year,
on the 6th of
December"|"[[December 6]], [[1988]]"]]),
[[cite:ISBN:123456789:p.13|"They called him "The
Big O""|"nicknamed
"The Big O""]], was ...
Yes, that is extremely hairy. I'll try and come up
with something more manageable and post it on the Meta
project site for review.
Hmm, just throwing something out there, but what if this is all kept
on a separate page? So you'd have the regular wikitext, and then
you'd have a list of references, in the form (reference, cited text,
article text). One problem with this is if the article text changes
*at all* the reference would have to be updated. But *eventually*
mechanisms could be designed to resolve this, once we get away from
editing articles using raw ascii text.
As long as the article text in the reference matches the article text
in the article (you could even ignore markup if you want), then you
can tie the two back together to create those nice graphics. Plus, at
least as the format of the reference itself gets more standardised,
you can start to generate the ==References== section automatically
(combining multiple references from the same source, standardising
into whatever format, optionally disincluding certain references).
Anyway, I just came up with this now, so I haven't completely thought
it through, but I figured it's something to throw out there.
Anthony