Wikipedia:Phase II feature requests/Interface and user preferences: Difference between revisions

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<br>When I use six spaces (instead of the underlines used above) to begin a new "semi-paragraph" (a break not as strong as a &lt;p&gt;) Wikipedia leaves the paragraph unformatted. IMO it was better not to use &lt;pre&gt;text&lt;pre&gt; automatically. And I wonder why <a href="xxxx">xxx</a> doesn´t work, why it can´t become automatically translated to Wikipedia syntax. Sporadic writers like me may want to use simple things like target="_blank" - things that don´t spoil consistency nor security - why not implement better filtering? I see you´re coding Wikipedia in PHP now, so performance should not be a problem.

<br>Another thing I´d like to have is modification dates, in an extended view mainly for writers. And tables or div layers to paint colors were cool, maybe even transparent colors (CSS?) to show overlapping and several successivesucessive changes. [[User:Grasso]]

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****I think both would be best: for example, take a look at the page generated by a successfulsuccesful Google search, such as http://www.google.com/search?q=wikipedia

* How about a link at the bottom of each page that would automatically create a bibliography reference (works cited) for a paper? This would probably encourage students to use wikipedia more as a serious reference.