[WikiEN-l] New policy proposal

[Bryan Derksen]

At 09:48 AM 12/12/2004 +1100, David Gerard wrote:
>What we need is to encourage a culture of including references. I'm trying
>to get myself better at this ... If we can get the reference syntax
>implemented, that would help tremendously. (And I'm dreaming of it doing
>fancy reference-indexing things.)

Once upon a time long long ago I remember putting in a feature request for 
a simple "footnote" markup, along the lines of adding [[Note:blah blah 
blah]] anywhere in the article and having it turn into a superscripted 
number linking to an anchor for the text "blah blah blah" down at the very 
bottom of the page. Something like that could be suitable for references 
too, though it wouldn't be nice for making multiple references to the same 
source scattered throughout an article. Maybe a [[Ref:blah blah blah]] 
markup that automatically combines identical "blah blah" text into the same 
reference at the bottom?