EDT4OL/Intermediate wiki skills/Footnotes

Overview
Mediawiki has a handy feature to add numbered hyperlinks to footnotes in the body text. The corresponding text for each of the footnote numbers can be inserted at the bottom of the wiki page.

This is a useful feature to enable you to include links to citation references and additional background information.

When using this feature, Mediawiki will automatically insert the superscript numbers with hyperlinks to the relevant footnote text inserted at the bottom of the wiki page.

How to add footnotes or references
This is a three step process.

Step 1
Insert the opening and closing reference tags after the word in the body text where you would like the superscript reference number to appear. For example:


 * Note, the closing tag is prefaced with a forward slash (" "), whereas the opening tag does not have a slash.

Step 2
Insert the text for the footnote between the opening and closing  tags. For example:


 * Note, you can use standard wiki markup including, bold, italics, hyperlinks etc. for the footnote text.

Step 3
Insert the


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 * Note: The text contained within each set of  tags will automatically be inserted by the wiki where the   tag is placed on the page.