[Foundation-l] cite markup - take 2

Fri Dec 16 20:34:40 UTC 2005

> This looks like a good option to consider. Can you
> explain how the same 
> footnote can be cited multiple times in an article?

Brian-

Each "footnote" is really a place for the editor to
attach their evidence.  Thus in almost all cases 2
footnotes will share nothing more than the book or
article which is cited, while having different index
points into the work (e.g. page numbers), and evidence
texts (i.e. the text the paraphrased assertion in the
article is based upon).  The user will need only
provide a key to the work they are citing (usually the
ISBN number) and the rest of the information (title,
author, etc.) can automatically be queried from either
a Wikidata catalog which we build or some other online
reference service.  Thus I don't think there is any
duplicate work which we need to spare the user.

Looking at it from the other side, though, I think it
would be useful to allow multiple works/citations to
be associated with each footnote (user would click a
button to add more citation input fields for that
footnote), though this is a feature we might want to
consider adding in later.

> 
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:00:58 -0500
> From: Brian <brian0918 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] cite markup - take 2
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> 
> This looks like a good option to consider. Can you
> explain how the same 
> footnote can be cited multiple times in an article?
> In other words, if 
> the software automatically marks 3 different
> citations as "fn1", "fn6", 
> and "fn17", how can I have them all point to the
> same source? Or do I 
> have to copy the source info for each separate
> footnote?
>

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