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Implement easy footnotes
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Author: mapellegrini

Description:
(I'm writing this as featured article director for the english wikipedia)
There's been an issue lately with citation styles. Most everyone agrees that we
should strive for unobtrusive inline citation. Unfortunately, mediawiki does not
support easy footnoting. I'd like to see some kind of auto-footing, where
someone can simply type <footnote>This is the footnote text</footnote> and the
software automatically generates an intra-page html link, and automatically
numbers it.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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TitleReferenceAuthorSource BranchDest Branch
main.sh: Use gdate on macOSrepos/mediawiki/services/ipoid!141kharlanmacos-gdate-3e65main
Draft: Use $.i18n instead of i18next (T348470)repos/10nm/ultraviolet!7sportzwork/sportz/T348470dev
shell: Make scripts portable for macOSrepos/mediawiki/services/ipoid!122kharlanmacos-6b8fmain
package.json: Upgrade mariadb to version 3repos/mediawiki/services/ipoid!114kharlanT348477-24f7main
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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:12 PM
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fredrik.johansson wrote:

The syntax should preferrably be <note>This is the footnote text</note> ("note"
being shorter than "footnote").

By default, the list of notes should be added under an automatically generated
"Notes" section at the bottom of the article. Since this position is not always
ideal, a NOTES keyword should be supported to insert the list at any desired
place.

When two notes use the exact same string, the first note (number) should simply
be re-used.

  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 192 ***
Diffusion added a commit: Unknown Object (Diffusion Commit).Mar 4 2015, 8:22 AM