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

[David Goodman]

Having various reference techniques is very useful for people writing
articles, who can choose whatever they feel comfortable with; having
multiple simultaneous techniques is  not quite as helpful for people
trying to make small edits and fixes in articles, or adding
references, because you need to be familiar with every individual one
of them you might encounter.  Personally, for example, I never use the
cite templates if I'm adding refs to an unreferenced article,   but i
need to know them in case I work on an article already using them. And
similarly with every possibility.
I would rather have to learn any one thing, whether or not I dislike
it, than need to learn them all. I recognize of course that this tends
to inhibit experiment and improvement.



David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:44 AM, FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/18/09, Apoc 2400 <apoc2400 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If I may push my most radical suggestion, I want i.e. <<Smith2006>> to be a
>> shortcut for <ref name="Smith2006" /> allowing for very short references in
>> text.
>
> Interesting idea. May be worthwhile.
>
> FT2
>
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