[Foundation-l] Can anyone really edit Wikipedia?

[geni]

2008/9/25 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>:
> I was going to say as well, what happened to that proposal to define
> references at the bottom of the article instead of inline? And then
> Pathos posted a nice implementation above. It does make a whole lot
> more sense from both a reader and an editor's point of view to have
> 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
>

Basically it results in a high maintenance cost with a fairly high
chance of errors. It means you have to keep the article text and the
end section in sync rather than just keeping all the stuff in one
place.

-- 
geni