https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22134
Summary: Citations templates
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
URL: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Rann
pháirt%C3%AD_anaithnid/Cite.php
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: easy
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Cite
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
During a discussion on citation styles at the Village Pump on the en.wiki, a
number of editors expressed a dislike for citation templates. I greatly like
them for a number of reasons (e.g. they help users unused to citing sources to
do so properly, the lend to a consistent citation style, they make data that is
naturally suitable to being machine readable comprehendible to a machine as
discrete data, etc.).
The frequent source of the dislike mentioned by others was the time it takes a
long time to transclude many such citation templates in a heavily cited page. I
suggested enhancing Cite.php to do the citation templating.
The method I suggest is as follows:
---
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.<ref name="murphy" />
== References ==
<references>
<ref first="John" last="Murphy" title="Quisque Quis Orci Magna"
publisher="Printing House Press" location="London" year="2009" page="55"
isbn="978-3-16-148410-0" />
</references>
---
The above example renders the citation as follows:
J. Murphy. Quisque Quis Orci Magna. Printing House Press: London. 2009. Page
55. ISBN: 978-3-16-148410-0
I have a working example of the code necessary to implement this in a
rudimentary manner at:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Rannpháirt%C3%AD_anaithnid/Cite.php
It does not break current usage of Cite.php.
I'd be happy to continue development on this if it was picked up.
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