[Foundation-l] Can anyone really edit Wikipedia?

Thu Sep 25 15:48:57 UTC 2008

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was going to say as well, what happened to that proposal to define
>> references at the bottom of the article instead of inline? And then
>> Pathos posted a nice implementation above. It does make a whole lot
>> more sense from both a reader and an editor's point of view to have
>> reference metadata in a single place, away from the wikitext. Defining
>> refs with a "refname" in the text doesn't seem too bad... other than
>> the mess of trying to get a different stylistic system going, is there
>> some reason we don't do this?
>
> The problem at the moment is that you would end up with links to each
> ref at the bottom of the article and each ref would have an extra
> letter linking back to those links. I'm looking at the code now to see
> how easy it would be to allow hidden refs - it should be doable.
>

I wrote code to create a <refdefine> tag to do that literally years
ago.  There wasn't much interest in it at the time.

-Robert Rohde