On 4 November 2011 07:07, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote: > On 11/03/11 7:36 PM, Alan Liefting wrote: > > On 3/11/2011 10:45 p.m., Ray Saintonge wrote: > >> On 11/02/11 3:38 PM, Ian Woollard 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 > >>> <ref>lots of stuff</ref>. The problem with those is that they break up > the > >>> flow of the text, making it very hard to maintain. > >> Inline references are a problem even for newbies wanting to make a > >> simple correction. In a reference rich article the error may be easily > >> visible in article space, but becomes difficult to find in edit space > >> when one needs to wade through a lot of references. > > WikEd has syntax highlighting to make editing easier. > > > That just introduces another geekish piece of software. In a random page > in need of help there is no link to this software, If I want to fix an > obvious typo with one or two keystrokes I don't want to spend an hour > tracking down and learning some new tool. That just makes the cure more > onerous than leaving the error in place. Non-technical people are > quickly turned off by the fairy world of additional software. >
I still think a bots the right answer. A bot that collects the references to the end of the article has no very major downsides I can find; the users can carry on doing more or less what they already do, and the bot just tidies up. It could work something like, if a reference is named and there's a reference list which it's not in, then the bot moves it into the list and leaves a named tag that points to it, if it's unnamed or there's no list then leave it where it is. > Ray > -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l