On 9/18/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/09/2007, Michael Daly michaeldaly@kayakwiki.org wrote:
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.
If someone can write code for this, English Wikipedia would dive upon it with great glee.
As far as I understand the proposal, it's perfectly possible to implement immediately with no code changes. Just create a page, say Wikipedia:Refs, and make a subpage for each reference you want. Later, if it catches on, you can convert it to a proper namespace.