Brion Vibber wrote:
On 3/20/09 11:42 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
This is confusing. So there are two parts to Cite to make it work completely.
There are actually two *entirely separate extensions* in the Cite directory:
Cite/Cite.php : the <ref>, <references> tags.
This adds a system for adding footnotes to wiki articles, primarily meant for citing external references.
Cite/SpecialCite.php : Special:Cite
This adds a helper utility page which formats citations *to* a given wiki article, which you can then paste into the offline paper you're writing so you can site the wiki article as a reference.
I agree that this is confusing; probably Cite/Cite.php should be moved out to References/References.php or something sensible.
-- brion
That would probably confuse things more, as when people ask about Cite they refer to Cite.php If we renamed it, we would be saying install References, well, unless you are on 1.14 or less where it is included in Cite... SpecialCite is the odd one, it'd be better to rename it instead. Now, we only need a sensible name for it :)