MediaWiki Extension - Footnotes and Referfences

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MediaWiki Extension - Footnotes and Referfences

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Can we have this?
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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.

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Salve,

I agree with AJ; +1 from me too.

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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.
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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.
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Its' a plugin deployed by Wikimedia, so it should at least have good ongoing support
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Not only that but it's used on virtually every Wikipedia page.
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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...
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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.
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