[WikiEN-l] In praise of <ref></ref><references/>

[Ben McIlwain]

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Daniel P. B. Smith wrote:
>> From: Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca>
> 
>> Hopefully the new cite.php reference formatting will help in this
>> regard. Reference text can now be bundled directly with the text  
>> that it
>> is a reference for with the list of references at the bottom of the  
>> page
>> being automatically compiled from that. It makes it impossible to have
>> "orphan references" now, and perhaps having the full description of  
>> the
>> referenced material in place will make it harder for an editor to
>> accidentally delete it when removing unrelated material.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes for anyone who was
>> unaware of the new system. I'm loving it. :)
> 
> Oh, I should have said something nice about it in the first place. It  
> is, literally, a dream come true.
> 
> <hip></hip><hooray/>!
> 
> I only wish (well, you knew that was coming) that there was a way for  
> a reader to hide/show the superscripted links to the references.

By the way, I've created a references converter that does a pretty good
job of automatically converting from the old {{ref}} and {{note}} format
into the new <ref> format.  Check it out here:
http://teamgamer.org/cgi-bin/wikirefs.pl

Just make sure to follow the instructions to the letter.

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Ben McIlwain ("Cyde Weys")

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