[Foundation-l] Can anyone really edit Wikipedia?

[Thomas Dalton]

2008/9/25 Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> The problem at the moment is that you would end up with links to each
>> ref at the bottom of the article and each ref would have an extra
>> letter linking back to those links. I'm looking at the code now to see
>> how easy it would be to allow hidden refs - it should be doable.
>>
>
> I wrote code to create a <refdefine> tag to do that literally years
> ago.  There wasn't much interest in it at the time.

I've got a patch written now, didn't take long at all. I've just added
an attribute to the existing ref tag. <ref name="foo"
hidden="true">text</ref> won't appear inline and won't be linked back
to. It seems a much simpler approach to the others I've seen. I've put
it on the bugtracker
(https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15724), I suggest
implementing it and just giving people to option of using it, see what
happens.