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

[Angela]

On Dec 12, 2007 10:52 PM, River Tarnell <river at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 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?

I think this, along with {{fact}} and other tags, should be moved out
of the edit box completely. People should be able to add meta data,
interlanguage links, references, trust values, feature stars, AfD
notices, stable version flags, and whatever else they like in a
separate overlay which readers and editors can turn on and off and can
edit in a separate place.

Angela