[WikiEN-l] <Ref> tags s__k

Sun Dec 10 02:35:13 UTC 2006

Messedrocker has a pretty good suggestion, there, I think. Difficult to say,
but I *think* that setup might make more sense for newcomers? In addition to
fixing the problems originally brought up in this thread.

Given the number of lines of text these things might entail, it might be
easier for parsing and human readability if there's something just a little
more elaborate to delineate the start of each ref. I'm not sure what that
would be, though.

On 12/9/06, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think it should be reformed -- that is, it should be done the other way
> around.
>
> <ref name="foobar"/>
>
> then, at the bottom,
>
> <references>
> foobar=When "Thingamajig" Isn't Enough: A History of Foo Bar. Jim Cadigan.
> 1997
> </references>
>
> or something like that
>
> On 12/9/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > >> Yep! As I recall, the first use of a particular <ref> need not be the
>
> > "real"
> > >> one, anymore. It may be beneficial to start just using <ref
> > name="foo"/> in
> > >> the article text, and then shove the main refs to the bottom of the
> > article,
> > >> above or around the <refereces/> tag. For the time being, I suppose
> > that
> > >> would cause a few extra footnote links, but surely the problem is
> > >> surmountable.
> > >
> > > If they can go at the bottom, then it should be ok. I was under the
> > > impression the first use had to be the full one, if that's not so,
> > > then great! A numberline at the bottom isn't too bad, although the
> > > extra letter on each reference linking to the bottom of the page would
> > > still be annoying... we need some kind of noinclude option for refs...
> > >
> >
> > See Bug 5997.
> >
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