Maury Markowitz wrote:
- REF should not be picky about position.
I haven't had a problem with this. If you do, maybe it's a bug under certain conditions rather than a general problem.
Here's my suggested solutions:
I like your ideas and think they'd be useful.
The only thing I would like is to have in addition is a central pool of references. I have put together several pages recently, all on related topics and all using some common refs. However, I have to put them into each article separately. Since I copied and pasted from one page to the next, when I found an error in the original ref, I had to find all the others to correct.
If refs had a status comparable to images, they could be inserted in any article with minimal effort. One could have a "where used" function - "show all articles that reference this author" etc. I realize this is not a trivial effort, but I like to dream.
On my own wiki, I created a "References" category with sub-categories of "Book", "Video", "Journal" etc. Instead of refs as on Wikipedia, I use links like [[Roget's Thesaurus|Roget]]. No numbers in a list of refs at the bottom, but a click on the ref opens the details from the book's page (which has title, author, publisher, ISBN , review, etc.). Hmm... if I wrote an extension, I could pull a transclusion from the book page to generate a ref at the bottom of the page...
Mike