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
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>
but as you see it does not work. Apparently the program automatically escapes the "angle" characters, is there 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?
Ec
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...
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
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