[WikiEN-l] References for the technically challenged

[Magnus Manske]

Hi,

considering the ongoing discussion about references in articles, I
thought it might help if people less familiar with <ref> tags and our
template system would have an easy way to generate the necessary wiki
code for references.

So, I wrote a tool:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~magnus/makeref.php

It offers a list of reference type choices (currently only two) and a
standard form to fill in values for that type. Clicking a button will
then generate the necessary wiki source, ready to paste into the article.

The Really Cool Thing (tm) is that the reference types and their values
(and if they're mandatory or not) can be configured by editing a page on
meta (link is on the tool page). The syntax should be self-explanatory ;-)

It can support other languages by adding "&language=XX" to the URL;
however, there are no meta pages for other languages yet.


If you like it, maybe we could link the tool from the edit page?

Magnus

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