[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Article metadata separation from main wikitext

[David Gerard]

Hey kids! Sort out those BLOODY INSANE <ref> tags in the text!

(Something to add to AutoWikiBrowser for sure ...)


- d.




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>
Date: 2009/9/18
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Article metadata separation from main wikitext
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>


On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Andrew Garrett <agarrett at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> A fix for this went live today. You can now put your <ref name="">
> tags into the <references> tag, and then reference them by name.

Oh, so it did. And it works!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gippsland_Lakes_Discovery_Trail&diff=314622174&oldid=314098185

What's great about this kind of improvement is that it lets you see
where the next possible improvements could be:
- Separate out infoboxes
- Separate out images

*shrug*

Anyway, I look forward to a new era of editing without massive cite
templates in my face!

(And yes, a bot should go through and move them all...or at least ones
where the definition > X characters)

Steve

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