On 1/25/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
Do we really want to have, at minimum, one footnote per sentence? Unless MediaWiki gets fixed fast and we can have, say, implied metadata for any piece of text in an article, it would be unreadable.
That said, it would be nice to eventually have such a system.
Well, to be honest at least one referencing system available on wikipedia makes extremely discreet little superscripted numbers which don't interrupt readability at all. And theoretically it wouldn't be hard to make those numbers disappear or appear with CSS...
Too bad there are at least three separate referencing systems currently available, with absolutely no consensus on which is the best. At the same time everyone is screaming louder and louder CITE YOUR SOURCES!
Steve