ErfWiki User talk:SteveMB

Annotations references need a new standard

In my Newbie NSHO:  The references standard isn't really working,
since folks don't pay attention to the standard.  And even if they do,
they can make mistakes that don't get fixed.  I don't know how to fix
that.  I've gone through 100 pages of annotations, and found dozens
of cases of missing panel annotation references, and page/panel
annotation skew (when one footnote is updated but not copied to
the other).  I've also probably overlooked several cases.  It's
an impossible task.

If there were some sort of subpage for the panel that had the
footnote, the footnote subpages could be glommed together in the same
way the panel text is done.  But then we'd need to have a macro that
showed the =====Notes===== section only when there was some text in
the footnotes.  That's wikitude way above my pay grade.

If there were some sort of bot that scanned the Annotations pages for
differences between the page-by-page and panel-by-panel notes, it
might at least be feasible to repair the damage that we continually
inflict.  Again, I have no botmancy.

Anyway, this is raising the issue, in case you or anyone else has the
chops to attack it.  -Dan Hoey 03:46, 6 December 2009 (UTC)