On Sep 24, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Liz Kim wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know a way to manipulate the referencing style in wiki?
For example,
xyz <ref name=xyz:1>Some descriptions</ref>
<references/> ===================================
will produce something like:
=================================== xyz [1]
- Some descriptions
===================================
and I would like to be able to edit the [1]. Instead of having all the footnotes be numbered, I would like to name them myself and have the footnotes be organized alphabetically.
For example, I would like to view results such as:
xxx[Smith 2000] yyy[Adams 2007] zzz[Thomas 2002]
While this is my preferred form of citation using Endnote in Word docs, I think there are some costs you should consider before going for that citation style. In particular, it would require you to limit what users can put inside ref tags to only those things that can be parsed as having Author-Year. You also have to deal with the whole Smith 2000a vs. Smith 2000b etc. and how those would change during editing of a wiki page.
I can't imagine doing this using templates and Cite.php without some major modifications of the cite codebase. And then you'd have something that breaks backward compatibility with lots of other wikis.
Just my $0.02. The other thread was more about how to make the material in the wikitext inside the ref tag more concise. I don't think it branched into changing to a different citation style (but I've fallen behind in the thread, so maybe it's gone there since my last reading).
Adams 2007: Some descriptions Smith 2000: Some descriptions Thomas 2002: Some descriptions
=================================== Perhaps some sort of a template?
Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! -- LK _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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