User:Quiddity/Sidebar citations
Right-rail - The idea of citations/footnotes shown parallel in the new whitespace.
Internal mockup and notes
edit- Positives
- They give useful added context in some footnotes, e.g. (FAs)
- Would help readers to understand sourcing concepts, especially if there was a header with an info-link to w:WP:Verifiability.
- Drawbacks
- Less beneficial if short-cite style is used, e.g. (FAs)
- Increased prominence of external links, which will mis-motivate COI-edits, e.g. (FAs)
External examples
edit- https://criticallyconsciouscomputing.org/#/history - Click into a chapter, and then scroll down, and have a browser-window that is 1200+px wide.
- https://www.mollywhite.net/annotations/latecomers-guide-to-crypto
Implementation notes
edit- https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2023/09/12/nuclear-anchored-sidenotes/ - very promising research