On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard
<pathoschild(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)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&friendID=100000000
|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/mysp…
| 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/…
(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
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