I believe sometime we will go in this direction. But at the moment this would mean that the edit would be more complicated. The problem is if I edit a section, I put in <ref id="smith" />. But at the same time I cannot add <reference id="smith">...</reference> into the References and Notes section. I must do that either in two separate edits or I must edit the article as a whole. Also here we need a new technical solution.
Ting 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
