On 03/17/2010 08:48 PM, Nimish Gautam wrote: > Hey all, > > I wanted to change the "cite" extension to have some extra functionality. > > As citations have gotten more common, I've noticed an emerging use case > where people will copy and paste text from wikipedia to HTML-enabled > tools such as email clients or IM clients to share information. > Unfortunately, those citation links just link to anchors on the page and > don't provide anything useful when copied/pasted. Appending the full > page's URL to those links would take like 20 seconds, make them > functional, but would add extra markup to every page. Anyone have any > other good reasons why we shouldn't do this? >
When viewing a page through a redirect, the citation link would point to a different page causing a page load when clicked. When viewing through https://secure.wikimedia.org/ it would point to a different site, causing the user to leave the secure site when clicked. Conrad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
