Brion, agreed. I'd love to see a total overhaul of the ref section, I know Kaity had started thinking about it at one point. maybe she'd be interested in spending an Explore day sometime soon sketching some ideas.
a lightbox or fixed bottom element might be a cool way to handle seeing them on page, although some of the ref sections can get monstrous and might not fit that formfactor. *Jared Zimmerman * \\ Director of User Experience \\ Wikimedia Foundation M : +1 415 609 4043 | : @JaredZimmerman<https://twitter.com/JaredZimmerman> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > I would strongly consider totally redoing how references are displayed to > use a popup light box with citation cut n paste tools. > > No caret or arrow needed for return in this situation... :) > > -- brion > On Nov 12, 2013 12:22 PM, "Quiddity" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Most Wikimedia sites use the mediawiki default of an Arrow ↑ to backlink >> from citation-contents to the superscripted number/letter. >> >> English Wikipedia changed the default in 2006, to use a caret ^ and a few >> dozen other wikis have copied that. >> >> We'd like to examine the problems with the Arrow, to see if they can be >> fixed. >> >> We need help browser-testing and diagnosing and fixing the problem(s). >> >> This may have strong relevancy to the Typography Update in Beta Features. >> >> I've tried to summarize everything so far, at >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Cite_messages# >> Testing_and_summary_so_far >> >> Thanks! >> Quiddity >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Design mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design >> > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design > >
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