[Foundation-l] Wiki translations of Greek and Roman texts

[Delirium]

Ray Saintonge wrote:

> Wikimedia does not do a good job with footnotes.  Having to srcoll way 
> down to the bottom of the page to see a footnote can be very 
> inconvenient with a long text.  It's often a good thing to be able to 
> see both the referring text and the footnote at the same time.  Again, 
> this is something where having synchronized boxes would be very helpful.

I think we may also want to extend the concept of footnoes, given that 
we have the technology to do so.  In print, a footnote follows the 
section it's footnoting, and what exactly preceding portion to refers to 
is not actually specified.  This makes it difficult for 
densely-footnoted texts to figure out what is going on.  Since this is 
the intarweb, we can annotate *regions* of text, even overlapping 
regions.  This would be useful in Wikipedia proper as well, as you could 
annotate a particular section as "this is phrased this way because of 
the following issue" and be exactly clear what you're referring to.

I *seem* to recall someone already proposed something like this, and 
even had a page at meta about it, but I can't find it (I suppose I could 
be imagining things).

-Mark