[Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

[Nathan]

To explain what I mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:QUICKREF

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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