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

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> 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.
You make it sound almost as difficult as turning to the bibliography 
pages of a printed book.

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