This looks like a good option to consider. Can you explain how the same footnote can be cited multiple times in an article?

Brian-

Each "footnote" is really a place for the editor to attach their evidence. Thus in almost all cases 2 footnotes will share nothing more than the book or article which is cited, while having different index points into the work (e.g. page numbers), and evidence texts (i.e. the text the paraphrased assertion in the article is based upon). The user will need only provide a key to the work they are citing (usually the ISBN number) and the rest of the information (title, author, etc.) can automatically be queried from either a Wikidata catalog which we build or some other online reference service. Thus I don't think there is any duplicate work which we need to spare the user.

Looking at it from the other side, though, I think it would be useful to allow multiple works/citations to be associated with each footnote (user would click a button to add more citation input fields for that footnote), though this is a feature we might want to consider adding in later.

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:00:58 -0500 From: Brian brian0918@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] cite markup - take 2 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@wikimedia.org

This looks like a good option to consider. Can you explain how the same footnote can be cited multiple times in an article? In other words, if the software automatically marks 3 different citations as "fn1", "fn6", and "fn17", how can I have them all point to the same source? Or do I have to copy the source info for each separate footnote?

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