User:Quiddity/Sidebar citations

Right-rail - The idea of citations/footnotes shown parallel in the new whitespace.

Internal mockup and notes

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Demo of citation sidebar article design idea - a hand-edited screenshot of w:en:Foobar.
Positives
  1. They give useful added context in some footnotes, e.g. (FAs)
  2. Would help readers to understand sourcing concepts, especially if there was a header with an info-link to w:WP:Verifiability.
Drawbacks
  1. Less beneficial if short-cite style is used, e.g. (FAs)
  2. Increased prominence of external links, which will mis-motivate COI-edits, e.g. (FAs)

External examples

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Implementation notes

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