https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33580
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Bug #: 33580
Summary: include ref name references anywhere in an article but
don't display them unless referenced elsewhere
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
There are two problems here:
1. References are usually contained within the main body of the article, and
especially (a) when edited in plain text only and (b) when references are
extensive (including such information as author(s), date, publication, pages,
url etc), interrupt the flow of the article and make editing difficult.
2. Secondly, as noted at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NAMEDREFS#Multiple_references_to_the_same_footnote
named references (<ref name="foo"></ref>; <ref name="foo"> multiple references
to the same footnote are possible. However, it's not necessarily apparent
where the parent reference is in the article (making editing it difficult).
3. Thirdly also with multiple references to the same footnote, deletion of the
parent footnote, results in the editor having to move all the details of the
footnote to another place in the article in which the same footnote appears.
Therefore the proposal is as follows:
The detailed information in the footnotes should really be kept at the end of
the main text, under the ==References== section where they can:
1. Be kept out of the main text, with only <ref name="foo"> references in the
main text
2. Be easily found by an editor
3. They don't have to be moved if text needs to be deleted.
The way to do this is to have a list of references in the markup that are not
displayed in that place in the article, but instead are only brought into the
main reference list when cross-referenced elsewhere in the article.
A suitable markup may be <ref name="foo" hidden="true">details</ref>.
References can thus actually be organised in a better way.
Implementing this would improve flexibility when dealing with articles
especially those with many, many references.
Thanks
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