On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:29 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.
Is there any obvious reason not to do this?
The only reason that occurs to me is that it will make <references /> less discoverable. On the other hand, people would likely figure it out if they'll figure out <ref>, and if not, the worst that happens is that references are way at the bottom.
I don't see any reason not to do this.