[WikiEN-l] the star(s) in Special:Statistics

[TheNewPhobia (formerly Jonathan)]

I didn't see the notes in the asterisks unless I moved the cursor *right
over* the asterisk. I don't think many people will realize to mouseover. Why
can't we use footnotes?

~TNP
http://thenewphobia.wordpress.com/

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> this is something that made me somewhat lose faith in my eye vision
> (which is horribly bad anyway):
>
> in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics, two entries, viz.
> "Pages" (second line) and "Active users (registered users with at
> least one edit or logged action in the past 30 days)" (8th line) have
> a small asterisk (*) next to them. I take it that the asterisk denotes
> a reference to a footnote...but I'm unable to find anything at the
> bottom of the page, not even a sentence like "Entries marked with an
> asterisk mean..."
>
> What on earth am I missing? Where is explained what these
> stars/asterisks are for?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> --
> Michael Bimmler
> mbimmler at gmail.com
>
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