[WikiEN-l] note David Gerard's just placed on [[WT:AFD]]

[Mark Wagner]

On 1/27/06, Philip Welch <wikipedia at philwelch.net> wrote:
> I think discreet superscripted numbers *would* be annoying if they
> appeared after each and every statement of fact. And we'd have 500
> cites per article.
>
> That said, I'd prefer a dynamic metadata system so that any arbitrary
> piece of text could be matched to a source, the editor who wrote it,
> and so forth. But that would be way, way beyond any of the software
> we have now in complexity, I think.

Such a system already exists.  It's called Project Xanadu
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu), and it's such an
incredibly complicated system that it's taken 38 years for a
preliminary implementation to appear.

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Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]