On 09/04/06, Michael Dorosh <madorosh(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
What I want to accomplish is this:
[...snippety
snip...]
I also don't want to have to manually number the
references but have
them automatically >sorted. I know Wikipedia does this, I
just don't
understand how to make it work on my own.
Historically, Wikipedia users used an ugly system of {{note}} and
{{ref}} templates which, with some voodoo magic and a lot of sweating
and swearing, achieved the desired result, after a fashion.
Avar later wrote a Cite extension which is now in use on the site; and
users are converting articles over to use it. It's cleaner, tidier and
sleeker, and it does all sorts of automagical things to references.
As far as I know, both these methods rely upon features of the parser
which are not present below MediaWiki 1.6.0. More information on the
Cite extension can be found at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite/Cite.php.
Rob Church