[Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

[Nathan]

A button or link that says "Add a reference?" that brings up a box
with several lines, labelled "URL" "Source" "Author" "Date". Click
"Ok" and the reference is inserted, no ref syntax or other ugly
interface necessary.

Put it automatically at the end of a paragraph or somewhere else,
maybe even include a section selector as step 1 of the box. Allow it
to be manually inserted, so if a reference is needed but someone
doesn't have one, they can make it easy for someone else to add it.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:07 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_is_a_mess_wikipedians_say_1_in_20_articl.php
>
> Now, we have a lot of work to do, it's obviously encyclopedic and it
> would be hard to get really wrong.
>
> What needs to be in place to make it possible to recruit newbies for
> the task of referencing things? (Alleviate the citation syntax
> problem. Make the results easily checkable by the experienced. Ban the
> use of Twinkle or similar semi-botlike mechanisms on the resulting
> edits, as nothing repels good-faith new users like instant reversion.
> What else?)
>
>
> - d.
>
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