On 02/09/06, Akash Mehta draicone@gmail.com wrote:
Well, what do you mean by a central bibliographical reference base?
There are various mooted plans on en: to have a central list of reference works that can be just referenced in an article. (I'm not entirely convinced this is workable or won't make editing the wikitext even more opaque than it is already. The <ref></ref><reference /> syntax seems to work nicely, for example.)
I could code it, if I knew what I was coding. Currently we have the <reference> system, which is simple enough, but getting entries in the right format is hard.
I tend never to worry about the format, as making sure there's a decent reference at all is the main struggle at the moment; if someone else cares they'll go over it later.
Using the cite templates makes life simple, but not everyone knows about them. Is there a wikiproject on improving wikipedia's bibliographical standards?
Probably several :-)
- d.