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

[Thomas Dalton]

> The other user helping with this article is an academic expert.  So I wanted
> to make the references simple as could be and just did them like this
> <ref>Rotter (1954)</ref> or like this <ref>Millon (2004), p. 353</ref>  The
> list of books and websites is at the bottom of the page. With websites as
> links, this does not work an obviously simple way, though.

With that you have to follow the footnote, read the short form of the
reference and then manually find the long form. With only a few
references, it's not too bad, but that system certainly doesn't scale
to pages with dozens of references.