Sounds like a great idea. It's sad that dealing with references on
Wikipedia is so complicated and requires knowing at least a dozen templates
and things like hash linking if you want to do it right (or edit a featured
article without breaking the references). Any efforts to simplify this with
Wikitext are welcome. While we're at it, can we add a separate <note> tag,
so that we can add footnotes with their own references (rather than having
to resort to templates)? See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T7265
(originally
requested in 2006!).
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 9:29 AM Adam Wight <adam.wight(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
The German Technical Wishes team is planning to
implement a feature we're
calling "book referencing", which supports one level of nested references.
This makes it possible to reference the same book several times in an
article, pointing to various pages, without repeating the full citation.
A more complete description of the feature and a screenshot is available
below, please feel free to comment in Phabricator or on this thread.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234030
There has already been some community discussion, but since we're proposing
a small change to wikitext (the <ref> tag will accept a new attribute), I
thought it would be appropriate to wait for a round of technical feedback
before we begin coding.
Regards,
Adam
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Adam Wight - Developer - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. -
https://wikimedia.de
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