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 :)