User:Bongolium500/Sandbox 5
Here are some attempts at making more detailed source refences. A quite random example has been chosen to be used here.
Current
Her birthday was the 16th of August. (PROSE: Our Tune)
Her birthday was the 16th of August. ([[PROSE]]: [[Our Tune (short story)|]])
Method One - Collapsible
V1 - Manual
Her birthday was the 16th of August. (PROSE: Our Tune + Part of Iris: Fifteen from Iris Wildthyme published by Obverse Books in 2013.)
Her birthday was the 16th of August. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Tune (short story)|Our Tune]]'' <sup><span class="mw-customtoggle-Our_Tune">+</span> <span class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-Our_Tune">Part of ''[[Iris: Fifteen (anthology)|Iris: Fifteen]]'' from ''[[Iris Wildthyme (series)|]]'' published by [[Obverse Books]] in [[2013 (releases)|2013]].</span></sup>)
Issues
According to MediaWiki's website, this can be confusing for users using a screen reader. Every collapsible is open for a short amount of time while the page loads before closing which, on a larger page using this a lot, would cause the page to jump a lot.
As a Template
<sup><span class="mw-customtoggle-Our_Tune">+</span> <span class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-Our_Tune">{{#if:{{{anthology|}}}|Part of ''[[{{{anthology|}}}|{{dau|{{{anthology}}}}}]]'' {{#if:{{{series|}}}|from ''[[{{{series|}}}|{{dau|{{{series}}}}}]]''}} published|{{#if:{{{series|}}}|From the series ''[[{{{series|}}}|{{dau|{{{series}}}}}]]'' published|Published}}}} by [[{{{publisher}}}|{{dau|{{{publisher}}}}}]] in [[{{{year}}} (releases)|{{{year}}}]].</span></sup>
Usage
{{exsource|anthology=|series=|publisher=|year=}}
Anthology and series are optional. Publisher and year are required. Please do not link. Please include dab terms for anthology, series and publisher but not year.
Example
([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Tune (short story)|]]'' {{exsource|anthology=Iris: Fifteen (anthology)|series=Iris Wildthyme (series)|publisher=Obverse Books|year=2013}})
V2 - Automated
This should be visually identical to the above. However, it needs a fair amount of prior work to function correctly. Therefore, it does not work at all in its current state. There is more information on this in this section.
Her birthday was the 16th of August. (PROSE: Our Tune + Part of [[Iris: Fifteen (anthology)]] from [[Iris Wildthyme]] published by [[]] in [[]].)
Her birthday was the 16th of August. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Tune (short story)|Our Tune]]'' <sup><span class="mw-customtoggle-Our_Tune">+</span> <span class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" id="mw-customcollapsible-Our_Tune">Part of ''{{da|{{#show:Our Tune (short story)|?anthology}}}}'' from ''{{da|{{#show:Our Tune (short story)|?series}}}}'' published by ''{{da|{{#show:Our Tune (short story)|?publisher}}}}'' in ''{{da|{{#show:Our Tune (short story)|?year}}}}''.</span></sup>)
Issues
According to MediaWiki's website, this can be confusing for users using a screen reader. Every collapsible is open for a short amount of time while the page loads before closing which, on a larger page using this a lot, would cause the page to jump a lot.
For this to work at all, a lot of prior work needs to be done with Semantic MediaWiki annotations. By far the best solution (in terms of future-proofing and best practises) is too update Infobox Story. However, this would require changing every page using this template which is, well, a lot. It might be possible to do this without changing every page, but it wouldn't be as good. Having said all of this, I 100% think putting in this work would be worth it as it would make some other cool stuff possible as well.
As a Template
+ Published by [[|]] in [[|[[]]]].
