On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
Would it be overwhelmingly hard to program a pop-up dialogue which would first ask which type of source the editor is citing from, which would lead to a form with labeled textboxes for the various elements of a reference citation with an asterisk beside the elements considered vital. My guess is that quite a few of the elements of such are already in the code.
A lot of this already exists in the cite toolbar on the English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cite_toolbar_2.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Citing_sources_tutorial,_part_2.ogv
It's very en.wp specific (because the templates are), and the usability is still a bit poor. It's one of those low-hanging fruit things where a little bit of effort could go a long way.