That's not a bad idea. I've had some troubles with this too. If we were to implement something like this though, we'd still have to accept the old version for a while, until it can change in each article.
On Dec 3, 2008, at 8:46 PM [Dec 3, 2008 ], Thomas Larsen wrote: > Hi all, > > The current <ref>...</ref>...<references/> system produces nice > references, but it is flawed--all the text contained in a given > reference appears in the text that the reference is linked from. For > example: > > It was a sunny day on Wednesday<ref>David Smith. ''History of > Wednesdays.'' > History Magazine, 2019.</ref>. The next day, Thursday, was cloudy. > > == References and notes == > > <references/> > > (That's a very simple example, too. References start to become a lot > larger once they start to include other information and/or are > produced via a template.) > > Once way I could conceive of correcting the problem is to have a > reference tag that provides only a _link_ to the note via a label and > another type of reference tag that actually _defines_ and _displays_ > the note. For example: > > It was a sunny day on Wednesday<ref id="smith"/>. The next day, > Thursday, > was cloudy. > > == References and notes == > > <reference id="smith">David Smith. ''History of Wednesdays.'' > History > Magazine, 2019.</reference> > > This makes the raw wikitext easier to read, since the text of the > actual reference is in the _references_ section instead of in the > page's primary content. > > I think this could work ... > > --Thomas Larsen > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
