[Foundation-l] Wiki translations of Greek and Roman texts

Sj 2.718281828 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 11:12:34 UTC 2004


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:25:30 +0200, Jens Ropers <ropers at ropersonline.com> wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2004, at 12:04, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> 
> > Wikimedia does not do a good job with footnotes.  Having to srcoll way
> > down to the bottom of the page to see a footnote can be very
> > inconvenient with a long text.
> 
> You don't have to scroll down, at least not manually.
> You just click on the superscript number. And hit backspace when
> finished reading the footnote.

Or better yet, link the number at the start of the footnote to its
position in the text.
But MediaWiki doesn't support autonumbered or auto-positioned
footnotes yet, at all...
It would in general be useful to edit the footnote along with the relevant text.

< Cf.:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Footnotes
 
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