Timwi wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Another Wikisourceror has raised the matter of
footnotes in the
Scriptorium.
http://sources.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikisource%3AScriptorium
Hello! I wasn't able to figure out how to
insert raw html anchors in
to the text. I am mainly interested in inserting "clickable"
footnotes, something like
<a href="#footnote1">1</a>
I know that some time ago we talked about being able to annotate at
Wikisource, but it's still a small enough project that the technical
people aren't regularly there. Can anybody help him?
I seem to recall that for Wikipedia, we specifically decided we really
don't want to allow authors to do this...
That's likely true, and I'm sure there are valid though arguable reasons
reasons for it. For now I would prefer to remain neutral on that issue
for Wikipedia.
Wikisource is a different project. Its primary function is the
reproduction of existing texts. These texts can be but essentially
should not be edited. There is, nevertheless, a reasonable demand for
annotation. This could not happen within the text without seriously
damaging its readability. In the absence of something like annotations
in a parallel box, footnotes can be one way of dealing with this.
Ec