FS#12237 - Adding Cite extension to Arch Wiki

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by G_Syme (G_Syme) - Tuesday, 25 November 2008, 16:24 GMT
Last edited by Simo Leone (neotuli) - Sunday, 21 June 2009, 18:30 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Web Sites
Status Closed
Assigned To Pierre Schmitz (Pierre)
Simo Leone (neotuli)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:

I'd like to request a way for the wiki to support footnotes like the ones which can be found in Wikipedia.
After some research I've found out that this can be accomplished by installing the Cite extension [1] for MediaWiki.
The installation seems to be pretty straight forward [2] (just 2 steps, actually).

I've also started a bbs thread [3] about this topic.

[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php#Installation
[3] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=454074
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Closed by  Simo Leone (neotuli)
Sunday, 21 June 2009, 18:30 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  It hasn't been implemented in 7 months, it's not gonna happen.

We like to maintain as few extensions as possible, makes maintenance much easier in the future.
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Thursday, 11 June 2009, 06:49 GMT
I found this report by accident. I still don't see a reason why such formalism would be need on a wiki which is mostly used for documentation. But maybe somone sees a good reason to implement this feature.

Installation seems easy at a first look. But don't forget that every additional extension which is not part of the main distribution increases workloads and may lead to problems or incompatibilities with new versions of MediaWiki.
Comment by G_Syme (G_Syme) - Thursday, 11 June 2009, 07:35 GMT
Concerning the reason:
Quite some time ago, I've started a Wiki page for desktop entries [1], because although we have the standards from freedesktop.org, most users (and even developers) don't know about them, or have no interest in reading the complete standard specification(s). When referring to a standard, citing (with this extension) is quite useful, because people can quickly verify the source and check whether the wiki information is still up-to-date.
But my main reason for proposing this is because I've encountered myself a couple of times citing the same part of a standard over and over again. The cite-extension can recognize this, so even if you have e.g. 20 links spread across your complete howto, they can all be found in a compact form (if some of them are redundant, they will only be listed once) at a standardized place (AKA the bottom of the wiki page). This could IMHO seriously improve the readability of such howtos.

Hope this clarifies my intentions behind this idea.

[1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_desktop_entries_and_menus

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