On 09/04/06, Michael Dorosh madorosh@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