On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
You're right, the way we currently do references results in a complete mess. It requires some development work to make any progress, I think
- I'll take a look at the relevant code and see if it can be done
easily.
One solution would be to define references at the bottom of the article, and use them in the text. (This is possible with the current implementation, but only messily.) Then the code above would look something like below.
The infobox is a separate problem, but fixing the inline references will be a huge improvement.
###################################### The 100 millionth account was created on August 6, 2006<ref name="MySpace100Millionth" /> in the [[Netherlands]]<ref name="Murdochcomments" /> and approximately 106 million accounts on September 8, 2006,<ref name="ElReg-MySpaceMusic" /> and the site attracts 230,000 new users per day<ref name="PatriciaSellers" />.
==References== <ref name="MySpace100Millionth Profile">{{cite news |url=http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendI... |publisher=MySpace |title=100,000,000th Account |date=2007-02-25 |accessdate=2007-02-21 }}</ref>
<ref name="Murdochcomments">{{cite news | url=http://internet.seekingalpha.com/article/15237 | publisher=SeekingAlpha | title=Rupert Murdoch Comments on Fox Interactive's Growth | last=Murdoch | first=Rupert | date=2006-08-09 | accessdate=2006-09-12 }}</ref>
<ref name="ElReg-MySpaceMusic">{{cite news | url = http://go.theregister.com/feed/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/08/myspa... | title = MySpace music deal poses multiple threats | date= 2006-09-08 | accessdate = 2006-09-08 | publisher = The Register }}</ref>
<ref name="PatriciaSellers">{{cite news|last=Sellers|first=Patricia|title=MySpace cowboys|url=http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384727/in... (magazine)|Money]]|publisher=CNN.com|date=2006-09-04|accessdate=2008-04-13}}</ref>
<references /> ######################################
I was going to say as well, what happened to that proposal to define references at the bottom of the article instead of inline? And then Pathos posted a nice implementation above. It does make a whole lot more sense from both a reader and an editor's point of view to have reference metadata in a single place, away from the wikitext. Defining refs with a "refname" in the text doesn't seem too bad... other than the mess of trying to get a different stylistic system going, is there some reason we don't do this?
-- phoebe