Sounds like a great idea. It's sad that dealing with references on Wikipedia is so complicated and requires knowing at least a dozen templates and things like hash linking if you want to do it right (or edit a featured article without breaking the references). Any efforts to simplify this with Wikitext are welcome. While we're at it, can we add a separate <note> tag, so that we can add footnotes with their own references (rather than having to resort to templates)? See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T7265 (originally requested in 2006!).
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 9:29 AM Adam Wight <[email protected]> wrote: > The German Technical Wishes team is planning to implement a feature we're > calling "book referencing", which supports one level of nested references. > This makes it possible to reference the same book several times in an > article, pointing to various pages, without repeating the full citation. > > A more complete description of the feature and a screenshot is available > below, please feel free to comment in Phabricator or on this thread. > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234030 > > There has already been some community discussion, but since we're proposing > a small change to wikitext (the <ref> tag will accept a new attribute), I > thought it would be appropriate to wait for a round of technical feedback > before we begin coding. > > Regards, > Adam > > -- > Adam Wight - Developer - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. - https://wikimedia.de > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
