On 9/17/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/09/2007, Jesse Martin (Pathoschild) pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
Cite tags are location-agnostic in my test at < http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pathoschild/Sandbox >.
Likewise, to my surprise. Has it been fixed recently? I'm sure it didn't used to work.
I have a vague recollection it was fixed several months ago.
On 9/17/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/17/07, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
Do you just want the ability to make two citation-like lists per article whereas you can make one now? If that's the case wouldn't a system where you can make and flush an arbitrary number of lists be better?
How many are we likely to want? Enough that general-purposing the mechanism (rather than a second instance) makes sense?
Yes. Someone might want per-section notes for some reason, for instance (this is common on enwiki "Comparison of X" pages right now, in my experience).
On 9/17/07, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
If that's the case I think *implementation wise* it would be a neat idea to support reference groups, so the above could be written as:
""" Some statement<ref group="references" name="ref name">This is a reference</ref> and something to note<ref group="notes" name="note name">This is a note</ref>.
== References ==
<references group="references"/>
== Notes ==
<references group="notes"/> """
Before I got commit access, I wrote up and submitted a patch implementing exactly that syntax. I do plan on revisiting it someday, cleaning it up and committing it.