[WikiEN-l] New policy proposal

[Neil Harris]

Bryan Derksen wrote:

> 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?

<footnote>This would probably be better and more intuitive.</footnote>, 
where the tag might be "footnote", "foot", "note", or whatever. It also 
fits in with the way that the software is designed to be extended.

-- Neil