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Minimize references

  • Problem: When you are editing in the source mode, as you enter text, you also add references, but sometimes the references contain so much data it's difficult to see the text you are writing.
  • Who would benefit: Facilitate the reading to the editors
  • Proposed solution: Add a "code folding" feature, with a toolbar button to minimize references and templates.
  • More comments: For example this text it's difficult to see which parts are prose and which parts are references/templates:
Entre sus actuaciones más importantes destacaron «''Runnin''» de [[Naughty Boy]] y [[Beyoncé]] que cantó junto a Agoney en la gala 1,<ref>{{Obra citada|título=Operación Triunfo - Míriam y Agoney cantan 'Runnin' en la gala 1 de OT|idioma=es-ES|url=http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/ot-2017/operacion-triunfo-miriam-agoney-cantan-runnin-gala-1-ot/4279058/|fechaacceso=28 de marzo de 2018|fecha=30 de octubre de 2017}}</ref> «''I Wanna dance With Somebody''» de [[Whitney Houston]] que cantó en la gala 8,<ref>{{Obra citada|título=Operación Triunfo - Miriam canta 'I wanna dance with somebody' en la Gala 8 de OT|idioma=es-ES|url=http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/ot-2017/operacion-triunfo-miriam-canta-wanna-dance-with-somebody-gala-8-ot/4379995/|fechaacceso=28 de marzo de 2018|fecha=19 de diciembre de 2017}}</ref> y «''What About Us''» de [[Pink]], tema que la clasificó para la final del concurso en la gala 11.<ref>{{Obra citada|título=What about us - Miriam - OT 2017 Gala 11 - RTVE.es|idioma=es-ES|url=http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/ot-2017/miriam-what-about-us-gala-11/4423244/|fechaacceso=28 de marzo de 2018|fecha=16 de enero de 2018}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cita noticia|título=Operación Triunfo ya tiene a sus cuatro primeros finalistas|url=http://www.lasprovincias.es/culturas/tv/operacion-triunfo-finalistas-20180115001916-nt.html|fecha=16 de enero de 2018|fechaacceso=28 de marzo de 2018|periódico=Las Provincias|idioma=es}}</ref>

But if we collapse the references then it's much clearer:

Entre sus actuaciones más importantes destacaron «''Runnin''» de [[Naughty Boy]] y [[Beyoncé]] que cantó junto a Agoney en la gala 1, «''I Wanna dance With Somebody''» de [[Whitney Houston]] que cantó en la gala 8, y «''What About Us''» de [[Pink]], tema que la clasificó para la final del concurso en la gala 11.

Discussion

  • Hmm, I'm pretty sure there was a proposal or technical work done for what was called "reference folding" which is what is being requested. Am I hallucinating? --Izno (talk) 20:46, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've made (and self-reverted) a demonstration of how the collapsed elements could hypothetically appear. I don't know if you'd want to include something like that, or if you have better images/idea(s) of how it could be visualized, so I'll leave it to you to add something in. I've also made some copyedits to the explanation, please check that I haven't changed what you meant. Cheers :) Ping @Vanbasten 23: Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 23:01, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • My ultimate take on this problem (see proposal) would be moving the references to Wikidata, and providing in the wikitext only ID number. IMO the references should be eventually removed from the free text and stored in a structured, searchable, allowing an easy reuse database anyway. aegis maelstrom δ 17:54, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I tried a thing for sweeping all the refs to the end (in display only, it didn't change the text), but it messed up copy-paste a bit, as I recall, so I stopped using it. Does anyone know what it is called? It might fit the bill. HLHJ (talk) 07:41, 14 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
en:Help:List-defined references? DMacks (talk) 19:23, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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