[Foundation-l] Can anyone really edit Wikipedia?

[Luna]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:29 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> > One solution would be to define references at the bottom of the
> > article, and use them in the text. (This is possible with the current
> > implementation, but only messily.) Then the code above would look
> > something like below.
>
> 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?
>

That would be a huge leap forward.

-Luna