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

-- en:User:Avraham ---- pub 1024D/785EA229 3/6/2007 Avi (Wikipedia-related) aviwiki@gmail.com Primary key fingerprint: D233 20E7 0697 C3BC 4445 7D45 CBA0 3F46 785E A229 On Dec 12, 2007 11:11 AM, wikien-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com > To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:24:17 +0000 > Subject: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] that awful <ref> syntax > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: River Tarnell river@wikimedia.org > Date: 12 Dec 2007 11:52 > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] that awful <ref> syntax > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > >