On 1/25/06, Philip Welch <wikipedia(a)philwelch.net> wrote:
Do we really want to have, at minimum, one footnote
per
sentence? Unless MediaWiki gets fixed fast and we can have, say,
implied metadata for any piece of text in an article, it would be
unreadable.
That said, it would be nice to eventually have such a system.
Well, to be honest at least one referencing system available on
wikipedia makes extremely discreet little superscripted numbers which
don't interrupt readability at all. And theoretically it wouldn't be
hard to make those numbers disappear or appear with CSS...
Too bad there are at least three separate referencing systems
currently available, with absolutely no consensus on which is the
best. At the same time everyone is screaming louder and louder CITE
YOUR SOURCES!
Steve