Footnotes etc
Good evening Dave,
Sometimes, the HTML/Wiki programming-lessons learned by reading the MediaWiki/Wikipedia help files will not (yet) apply to the RR Wiki, because some of the extensions that allow certain capabilities in Wikipedia have not been installed on the RR Wiki server.
As an example, if you are interested in using citations/footnotes in a narrative paragraph, etc. so that a linked superscript number is displayed in the main text and a footnote/reference section is automatically generated at the bottom of the article (as is common in many Wikipedia articles), I'm not sure that is possible (yet) in the RR Wiki. I think that the
Extension:Cite extension is required in order to have the automatically-created footnote section at the bottom, and that it is not yet installed here. I might be wrong though.
The RR Wiki does allow an "unspecified" link, which will create a bracketed number, and which automatically chooses the next available number (meaning you don't need to worry about the numeric value being duplicated or skipped).
To use the "unspecified" link style, simply use the Wiki link but omit the description, like this:
Code:
[http://www.myexamplesite.com/myexamplepage.html]
instead of the customary Wiki link
Code:
[http://www.myexamplesite.com/myexamplepage.html My Page's Description]
An example of how these auto-numbered links are rendered can be seen embedded in the paragraphs of:
Charlottesville City (VA):Charlottesville Communities
As a way to enforce/ensure the superscript appearance in the above linked article, I wrapped the "unspecified" link with the superscript HTML tag, like this:
Code:
<sup>[http://www.myexamplesite.com/myexamplepage.html]</sup>
(A manually-created reference list could be placed at the bottom of an article, but coordinating the numeric references with the various "unspecified" links used throughout the related Wiki article would be a manual process.)
There might very well be a better way to do this than what I used above. If you figure out how to do the "automagic" footnotes, please let me know here.
Maybe one of the Admins can shed some light on this and help us both.
Thanks,