[WikiEN-l] Suggestion on how referencing system could be improved

[stevertigo]

Gwern Branwen<gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Thomas Larsen<larsen.thomas.h at gmail.com> wrote:

> If I may make a suggestion? That syntax is kind of clunky - maybe we
> could have a simpler syntax, something like '{{ref|foo}}' &
> '{{note|foo}: text'...

Reviving a year-old thread? Hm.
Related note: Bodnotbod dropped us a link:
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Move_references_out_of_the_code

-Stevertigo