[WikiEN-l] Footnotes/Endnotes - a proposal for a new MediaWiki feature

[Daniel Mayer]

There has been a lot of talk on WikiEN-l about the need for citations in 
articles. I tend to agree with that. But our current system of wiki refs only 
encourage the creation of footnote-like references to external websites 
(which is less than ideal). 

I have put together a proposal that, if enacted, would create a more 
wordprocessor-like footnote system that could be used for all types of 
footnotes (web, ISBN, journal articles, and written out dead tree citations). 

See and respond on:

http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footnotes

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)