On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
This has probably been raised before (is there a bug for it?), but it appears to me that it would be significantly more user-friendly to append a <references/> section at the bottom of the text that is being parsed when it is missing.
This would
- make it easier for new users to discover referencing functionality
(oldbies could still properly reformat the tag);
- solve the "references missing in section preview" problem.
There is a workaround that was originally here:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:ParaDox/VirtualReferences.js
Which has now moved to:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:ParaDox/monobook/VirtualReferences.js
It was copied to en.wp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:FT2/scripts/previewrefs.js
-- John Vandenberg