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.



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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
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