[Foundation-l] Can anyone really edit Wikipedia?

[Jon Harald Søby]

Don't waste your time, it has already been
done<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Cite/Cite.php#Variation_for_refs_in_the_final_references_block>,
just not implemented.

2008/9/25 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>

> > I was going to say as well, what happened to that proposal to define
> > references at the bottom of the article instead of inline? And then
> > Pathos posted a nice implementation above. It does make a whole lot
> > more sense from both a reader and an editor's point of view to have
> > reference metadata in a single place, away from the wikitext. Defining
> > refs with a "refname" in the text doesn't seem too bad... other than
> > the mess of trying to get a different stylistic system going, is there
> > some reason we don't do this?
>
> The problem at the moment is that you would end up with links to each
> ref at the bottom of the article and each ref would have an extra
> letter linking back to those links. I'm looking at the code now to see
> how easy it would be to allow hidden refs - it should be doable.
>
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