[WikiEN-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

2011-11-02 Thread David Gerard
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_is_a_mess_wikipedians_say_1_in_20_articl.php Now, we have a lot of work to do, it's obviously encyclopedic and it would be hard to get really wrong. What needs to be in place to make it possible to recruit newbies for the task of referencing things?

Re: [WikiEN-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

2011-11-02 Thread Ian Woollard
On 2 November 2011 21:07, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: What needs to be in place to make it possible to recruit newbies for the task of referencing things? (Alleviate the citation syntax problem. I'm thinking that the problem here is inline references. An inline reference is one

Re: [WikiEN-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

2011-11-02 Thread David Gerard
On 2 November 2011 22:38, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking that the problem here is inline references. An inline reference is one where you plonk the reference in the middle of the text reflots of stuff/ref. The problem with those is that they break up the flow of the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

2011-11-02 Thread Ian Woollard
Good. Do it then. On 2 November 2011 22:42, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 November 2011 22:38, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking that the problem here is inline references. An inline reference is one where you plonk the reference in the middle of the