[Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

[Magnus Manske]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:49 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.)

Go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/common.js
and insert
importScript('User:Magnus Manske/insertref.js');

You'll get an "Insert reference" link in your toolbox. Select some
(best plain, unique) text in the normal page (not the edit page!),
click the link, paste the reference, choose to insert left or right of
the selection, in edit mode click save, done.

This has been sitting there since March 2009. It's probably not what
you want "as is", but the concept could be married up with the Proveit
interface, and the "save" could be done via API, so you never ever see
the edit page.

Cheers,
Magnus