[Foundation-l] Can anyone really edit Wikipedia?

Ziko van Dijk zvandijk at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 25 15:38:24 UTC 2008


> reference metadata in a single place, away from the wikitext. Defining
> refs with a "refname" in the text doesn't seem too bad... other than
> the mess of trying to get a different stylistic system going, is there
> some reason we don't do this?
>
> -- phoebe
>

I cannot see anything positive in that refname system. It is
complicated to the user and invites people to indicate less thoroughly
were the information comes from (dropping page numbers, because it's
the same book). There is absolutely no problem to copy the full
reference information into the ref, making it independent from other
refs and from "Literature".

Ziko

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Ziko van Dijk
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