[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] that awful <ref> syntax

[Ben Yates]

What about syntax highlighting in the textarea?

On Dec 12, 2007 7:24 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: River Tarnell <river at wikimedia.org>
> Date: 12 Dec 2007 11:52
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] that awful <ref> syntax
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> so, the first thing i notice when editing Wikipedia articles these days
> is that they're full of <ref> tags that make it nearly impossible to
> find the actual text of the article.  the problem seems to be that the
> entire reference is inline in the text.  while this is useful for
> locality of editing, wouldn't it be nice if it would be close to the
> text, but not inline?
>
> for example, references could be named and referred to with [name], and
> then defined at the end of each paragraph:
>
> Wikipedia[wikip] is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation[wmf].
> [wikip] http://en.wikipedia.org/
> [wmf] http://wikimediafoundation.org/
>
> now, it's still easy to see and change the references, but you can
> actually see the article text as well.
>
> for an example from a real Wikipedia article, see
> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Kate/ref>.
>
> of course this would require some changes to the core parser to do
> properly, but i think the feature is useful enough to be worth it.
>
> comments?
>
>         - river.
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