Hi,
I am trying to enhance the wikimedia syntax to include a simple easy to use citation format. This will include an automatically generated reference page in addition to the existing talk,, discussion and history pages. In addition each reference on the reference page will have its own page and willl funciton same as an article in a wiki with its own talk page. Thus the wiki might be effectivelu used by students in writing papers.
I have just started going through the mediawiki code and i wanted to know what would be a good starting point to work on this kind of a project. I am getting very confused with the actual flow of the code. I will be creating a separate database for the references so i need to unerstand the flow.
-- Thanks, Amruta
Quoting Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de:
Amruta Lonkar schrieb:
Hi,
I am trying to enhance the wikimedia syntax to include a simple easy to use citation format.
Did you look at my citation extension ("extensions" module in CVS)? It lists citations/footnotes/etc at the end of the page.
Magnus
I looked at it, what i was thinking of doing was adding a new gui from where users could do reference selection/addition. I wanted to add a separate reference page where in all the references would be listed and then clicking on any reference would pull up a talk page for that reference.
I wanted to start with creating a separate tab which says 'Referencs', as the last tab in the article,discussion,watch tab list.
According to what i have been able to grasp from the source code till now, do i have to make additions to the skins files?. Which file actually lists all the tab names and the cases for their display?.
Thanks, Amruta
-- Amruta
2005/9/7, Amruta Lonkar gtg808u@mail.gatech.edu:
According to what i have been able to grasp from the source code till now, do i have to make additions to the skins files?. Which file actually lists all the tab names and the cases for their display?.
No you don't, take a look at my content_action.php extension in the extension module in CVS which does just that using an existing extension hook.
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