[WikiEN-l] A proposal to simplify and improve footnote markup in Wikipedia

[Håkon Wium Lie]

In the quest to simplify and improve Wikipedia's HTML code, the turn
has come to footnotes. Here is a proposal that describes how the
number of elements needed to represent footnotes can be halved:

  http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/ref/

Some of the proposed changes seems to belong in this group:

  http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-March/042405.html

Cheers,

-h&kon
              Håkon Wium Lie                          CTO °þe®ª
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