[Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

[Nathan]

I expanded the WP:QUICKREF page to discuss available tools. While
ProveIT (created by Georgia Tech) is a gadget that is available to all
logged in users in Preferences -> Gadgets, it's not available to
others, new users are unlikely to know about it, and it doesn't add
prompts to add a reference in the main body of article-space. I think
those are key improvements that could be made, either to ProveIT or to
a different gadget (or, ideally, an extension).

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:49 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 November 2011 21:41, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I knew it looked so obvious someone must've already tried to do it.
>> See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ProveIt.jpg and
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ProveIt_GT. This is a GUI reference
>> adding interface that shows up while editing (i.e., after you click
>> "edit this page.") It's a gadget currently available to everyone.
>> A gadget is certainly handy and I'll be using ProveIt from now on,
>> but... it doesn't help people who are not logged in or have never
>> edited before, it's not widely publicised, etc. etc.
>
>
> This needs polishing into some sort of newbie-usable tool and
> deployment as soon as can be managed. (i.e. before the WYSIWYG of our
> dreams.)
>
>
> - d.
>
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