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Separate reference page for glossaries, bibliographies, etc
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Author: wknight8111

Description:
I would like to get a system similar to the regular <ref></ref> system for references, except instead of printing out the notes at the <references/> tag, it would print out the references in a separate page. For instance, we could write a tag:

<ref target="My Book/Glossary">...</ref>

And on the page "My Book/Glossary" the references would print out at the <references/> tag. It would be similar to a category, I think, except that the page name would not be displayed on the target page, the note would be.

This would be a real big help for wikibooks, where most books have a glossary or bibliography (or both) and all those pages need to be generated and updated by hand.

Version: master
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Staff_lounge/Technical_Chat#Is_there_a_mechanism_for_generating_pages.3F

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 OpenFeatureNoneT12092 Separate reference page for glossaries, bibliographies, etc
 OpenFeatureNoneT17071 Wikibooks/Wikisource needs means to associate separate pages with books
 DeclinedNoneT52386 Create basic tool for reading books (group of pages)
 ResolvedNoneT53841 Navigation bars do not properly load until the JSON structure is re-saved.
 ResolvedNoneT52388 Create a function to make the handling of the reading interface simplest
 ResolvedNoneT54331 Navigation bars appear in diff view
 DeclinedNoneT54340 Allow non-Gregorian dates for publication date.
 DeclinedNoneT54343 Invalidate navbar cache when JSON is edited
 ResolvedLegoktmT54347 Use an IContextSource instead of globals
 ResolvedNoneT54435 Find previous/next links in the navbar more efficiently
 ResolvedNoneT52672 Reading interface need fallback for non JS users
 ResolvedNoneT52989 Add view frontend to the JSON block on Book: pages.
 DeclinedNoneT54816 Allow users to add links to the metadata
 DeclinedNoneT54823 Link the title in the JSON frontend to the main book page
 ResolvedNoneT54806 Add anchor to JS fallback metadata and content links
 DeclinedNoneT52679 Implement keyboard navigation for Bookmanagerv2
 ResolvedLegoktmT56304 JSON view frontend is broken
 ResolvedNoneT52759 Change navigation bar images to use local files
 ResolvedNoneT52762 Use variables to show/hide items in the navigation bar
 ResolvedNoneT52767 Use html or xml class to write the navigation bar
 ResolvedNoneT52957 Populate metadata, chapterlist, and prev/next in navbar from the JSON structure.
 ResolvedNoneT52674 Create an example JSON structure to be used in the navigation bar
 DeclinedNoneT52958 Validate a book's JSON block against a JSON schema.
 DeclinedNoneT54416 Add support for section indentation (subsections, etc.) in JSON schema
 DeclinedNoneT54470 Pull the JSON schema from a local page
 ResolvedNoneT52959 Pull the JSON schema from the Meta page.
 InvalidNoneT53062 JSON validator still allows properties that aren't in the schema if they're inside the sections array
 DeclinedNoneT53063 "pages" property does not allow for integers and arrays of integers
 ResolvedNoneT52988 Add i18n to JSON validation
 ResolvedNoneT53187 Allow pages that do not follow the "book/chapter name" syntax to be included in the navigation.
 ResolvedNoneT53193 Add namespace configuration variable
 ResolvedNoneT54821 Provide a link to the JSON (view) page from the navbar dropdowns
 ResolvedNoneT55288 Use more descriptive title attribute for read/edit buttons in navbar dropdowns
 ResolvedNoneT53194 Localize the publication date in the metadata
 ResolvedNoneT53196 Fix the appearance of wrapped text in the navigation bar
 ResolvedNoneT53195 Allow metadata drop down to play nicely with RTL languages
 DeclinedNoneT53240 Allow more structure in the navigation bar table of contents dropdown optionally
 ResolvedNoneT53241 Right arrow is still displayed on the last section of a book
 ResolvedNoneT52691 Add navigation bar fallback for users who can't view images or have different CSS
 ResolvedNoneT53258 Add title attribute for the data and toc icons
 ResolvedNoneT53256 No CSS loads when the browser's JS is disabled
 DeclinedNoneT53257 Improve UX in chapter dropdown menu for books with lots of chapters
 DeclinedNoneT52670 Load dropdown menu only after it is clicked
 DeclinedNoneT53384 Limit the number of sections loaded at once into the table of contents dropdown.
 DeclinedNoneT53386 Provide ability to search for a chapter that's not displayed in the dropdown
 ResolvedNoneT55105 Make the extension function completely independently from the schema
 ResolvedNoneT55164 Add variable to enable/disable the navigation bars
 ResolvedNoneT55289 Use more descriptive title attribute for prev/next buttons in navigation bar

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 9:53 PM
• bzimport added a project: Cite.
• bzimport set Reference to bz10092.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Jun 1 2007, 12:20 AM
• bzimport added a comment.Oct 1 2008, 4:44 PM

wknight8111 wrote:

*** Bug 15070 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

• bzimport added a comment.Oct 1 2008, 4:55 PM

mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

(In reply to comment #0)

<ref target="My Book/Glossary">...</ref>

Probably specifying the target page is a bad idea - what happens when you move My Book/Glossary? You'll have to change all the refs which point there. Instead it should pull refs from a specified set of pages (ideally from the whole book, once bug 15071 is done; specified manually otherwise).

I had suggested a different syntax on bug 15070:
<references pages=

Book/Intro,
Book/Table of Contents
Book/Chapter 1
...

/>

• iecetcwcpggwqpgciazwvzpfjpwomjxn added a comment.Apr 29 2014, 2:44 PM

I think that would be a task for the BookManager:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BookManager

In development as a GSoC:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jaindeepali/Proposal

Izno moved this task from Unsorted backlog to Enhancement backlog on the Cite board.Aug 22 2016, 4:18 PM
MarcoAurelio closed subtask T17071: Wikibooks/Wikisource needs means to associate separate pages with books as Declined.Nov 7 2017, 9:54 AM
Nemo_bis reopened subtask T17071: Wikibooks/Wikisource needs means to associate separate pages with books as Open.Nov 7 2017, 2:24 PM
Qgil unsubscribed.Nov 10 2017, 9:18 PM
MJL subscribed.Apr 7 2019, 3:52 AM
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:02 AM
Aklapper removed subscribers: • iecetcwcpggwqpgciazwvzpfjpwomjxn, • wikibugs-l-list.
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