[WikiEN-l] New policy proposal

Sun Dec 12 13:23:11 UTC 2004

I've had this idea kicking around in my mind for a while. What would
people think about a third tab for references. ie. The main article
tab, the talk tab, and the references tab, and the subscripted numbers
(or whatever) would be links to the references tab. i mentioned this
to tim starling, and i dont think that he saw any particualarly big
tech problem with this.

paz y amor,
[[User:The bellman]]

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:33:59 -0800, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> At 09:48 AM 12/12/2004 +1100, David Gerard wrote:
> >What we need is to encourage a culture of including references. I'm trying
> >to get myself better at this ... If we can get the reference syntax
> >implemented, that would help tremendously. (And I'm dreaming of it doing
> >fancy reference-indexing things.)
> 
> Once upon a time long long ago I remember putting in a feature request for
> a simple "footnote" markup, along the lines of adding [[Note:blah blah
> blah]] anywhere in the article and having it turn into a superscripted
> number linking to an anchor for the text "blah blah blah" down at the very
> bottom of the page. Something like that could be suitable for references
> too, though it wouldn't be nice for making multiple references to the same
> source scattered throughout an article. Maybe a [[Ref:blah blah blah]]
> markup that automatically combines identical "blah blah" text into the same
> reference at the bottom?
> 
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