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

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 01:03:51 UTC 2007


> Maybe <Blatt> <Green> <Asimov> or even <ref> Blatt</ref> <ref>
> Green</ref> <ref>Asimov</ref>, which would then lead to <Blatt> Blatt,
> Bill, "A Big Book of Dogs", London 1881 etc. etc. in the actual
> references section. Same amount of typing as the current
> implementation, and much cleaner to read in the text.

Using angle brackets for refs is a bad idea - they look too much like
HTML tags. <ref name="foo"/> works for me.



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