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Cite.php |
Ref/Note |
Parenthetic |
| Technical features |
Built into MediaWiki, permitting features like the blue highlighing on a selected footnote. |
Template based. |
No technical features, uses normal text. |
| Placement of note |
Inside tags in the middle of the article. |
At the end of the article, with a tag in the middle of the article. |
Inside parentheses in the middle of the article. |
| Repeated references |
Permits "named references" so we don't have to write the same reference information multiple times. Uses, however, a technology by which all footnotes to the same reference name have the same number, meaning that footnotes appear in a strange style unique to Wikipedia. |
No special features for this in normal ref/note. |
No special features for this. |
