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MediaWiki Extension - Footnotes and Referfences

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 12:44 am
by Love4Boobies
Can we have this?

Re: MediaWiki Extension - Footnotes and Referfences

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:49 am
by chase
Opinions?

Re: MediaWiki Extension - Footnotes and Referfences

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 9:26 am
by AJ
Hi,

I've only just read the page on this extension. I think that making referencing / citing easier can only encourage people to reference their sources which is a Good Thing.

+1 from me.

Cheers,
Adam

Re: MediaWiki Extension - Footnotes and Referfences

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:10 am
by shikhin
Salve,

I agree with AJ; +1 from me too.

Regards,
Shikhin

Re: MediaWiki Extension - Footnotes and Referfences

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:17 am
by Combuster
Or automate footnotes, which makes it easier to separate the details and edge cases from the essence of the text.

At any rate, it doesn't look like it'll hurt things.

Re: MediaWiki Extension - Footnotes and Referfences

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 4:13 pm
by chase
Combuster wrote:At any rate, it doesn't look like it'll hurt things.
Plugins can make updating a pain so I want to make sure there is a demand.

Re: MediaWiki Extension - Footnotes and Referfences

Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:13 pm
by Owen
Its' a plugin deployed by Wikimedia, so it should at least have good ongoing support

Re: MediaWiki Extension - Footnotes and Referfences

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 3:16 am
by Love4Boobies
Not only that but it's used on virtually every Wikipedia page.

Re: MediaWiki Extension - Footnotes and Referfences

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:54 am
by tronica
Just to let you know: This plugin breaks every other update, and while useful, isn't really worth the hazzle. Someone should make a better implementation of this...

Re: MediaWiki Extension - Footnotes and Referfences

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:50 am
by Love4Boobies
Just to let you know, that's a troll I was arguing on Freenode's #osdev with, after having mentioned this thread. Wikipedia uses it so it probably works just fine.