Sheldon Rampton wrote:
This argument doesn't hold up, for the following
reasons:
(1) The last I heard, there wasn't much chance that Wikipedia would be
published anytime soon in a paper-based form.
I did not know that. But nevertheless
I still try to convert articles to
LaTeX -- started with the idea to create a printable version of the
german Wikipedia instructions (Handbuch). The intention is, if it can
handle the instructions, it can handle articles as well.
(2) Even if it *were* published in a paper-based form,
it would be a
trivial task to write code that would strip out end notes if so desired.
Something like this would have to be done in any case for Wiki links and
external hyperlinks. (Underlined text in different colors ALSO looks bad
in a paper-based document, especially when there's no way to click on
them and go to the hyperlinked resource.)
Ok, paper-based meens for me also a PDF
Version, and PDF can handle
Links. Well Latex can handle footnotes too, but I think it will look
*shiver* bad (in an enciclopedia context).
(3) [...] Do you put them in parentheses in the middle
of the
article, where they would break up the text and make everything ugly? Do
you stick all the embedded hyperlinks at the bottom of the article, as
"pseudo end notes"?
Did not seen much from other wiki's, but in the
german wikipedia the
external links are usually at the end of an article (section
===Links===). It's nice to have them, but in a printed (non PDF) Version
I would skip them. Befor the printer is cold the link changed ;)
I don't have any problems skipping or integrating anchors, footnotes and
whatever in a printed version or in the online wiki (see democracy). I
don't see the need for it, in an enciclopedia. Most of the books
(especially enciclopedias) in the world works pretty well without
footnotes and/or anchors ;)
Smurf
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