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Inautilo<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Approaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Approaches</span></a><br>Give footnotes the boot · Smarter alternatives to footnotes on the web <a href="https://ilo.im/1652si" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ilo.im/1652si</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>_____<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Footnotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Content" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Content</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DesignPatterns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DesignPatterns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UxDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UxDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UiDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UiDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Development</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frontend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frontend</span></a></p>
Daniel Bellingradt<p>Just use <a href="https://historians.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a>. No one likes checking references at a later page. And no one, and I repeat no one, loves books with endnotes, dear academic publishers. In fact, endnotes are for losers. Rant over.</p><p><a href="https://historians.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/teamfootnote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>teamfootnote</span></a></p>
Christian Boulanger<p>The presentation "Extracting Citation Data Using LLMs" by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@anwagnerdreas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>anwagnerdreas</span></a></span> , David Carreto Fidalgo &amp; me talks about how to extract structured reference information from footnote-heavy scholarship using LLMs: <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgpsRrSeyIw&amp;list=PL5rAX6ywmP7O_nT99Osd74uino78BJMVT" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=bgpsRrSeyI</span><span class="invisible">w&amp;list=PL5rAX6ywmP7O_nT99Osd74uino78BJMVT</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/InformationExtraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InformationExtraction</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Footnotes</span></a></p>
andrecatta<p>Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.</p><p>In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AcademicWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicWriting</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Scholarship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scholarship</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Footnotes</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenScience</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Epistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Epistemology</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Publishing</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AcademicLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicLife</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WritingThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ScienceCommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceCommunication</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ResearchWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchWriting</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AcademicTwitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicTwitter</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MastodonAcademia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonAcademia</span></a></p>
eicker.news ᳇ tech news<p>»<a href="https://eicker.news/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TikTok</span></a> is adding <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/Footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Footnotes</span></a>, its take on <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/CommunityNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityNotes</span></a>: But the company isn’t walking away from <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/factchecking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>factchecking</span></a>.« <a href="https://www.engadget.com/social-media/tiktok-is-adding-footnotes-its-take-on-community-notes-140040044.html?eicker.news" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">engadget.com/social-media/tikt</span><span class="invisible">ok-is-adding-footnotes-its-take-on-community-notes-140040044.html?eicker.news</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a></p>
qurlyjoe<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a></p>
Marian Dörk<p>The call for Web Residencies »Tools for Citation« from Akademie Schloss Solitude looks amazing:</p><p>"The residency encourages artists to delve into associative trails, transdisciplinary thinking, and collaborative processes in and between analogue and digital networks and worlds to explore the practices of citation."</p><p><a href="https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/news/ausschreibung-fuer-web-residencies-no-20-tools-for-citation/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">akademie-solitude.de/de/news/a</span><span class="invisible">usschreibung-fuer-web-residencies-no-20-tools-for-citation/</span></a></p><p>Apply by 15 Dec 2024</p><p>/via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vis.social/@proff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>proff</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://vis.social/tags/WebDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDesign</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/InterfaceDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InterfaceDesign</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typography</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Footnotes</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/Citations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Citations</span></a></p>
Terence Eden’s Blog<p><strong>How to make Markdown Footnotes start at Zero in WordPress</strong><br><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/</a></p><p>As a dedicated and professional computer scientician0, I believe that all indices <em>must</em> start at zero. Not one, not two, but zero1.</p><p>The zeroth2 element is sacrosanct to our creed; for in the beginning there was <em>nothing</em>.</p><p>If you're using WordPress's JetPack, it uses an ancient version of <a href="https://github.com/michelf/php-markdown" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Markdown Extra</a>. You can either monkeypatch this, or <a href="https://codeberg.org/jeffmcneill/markdown-extra-unofficial" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">install a separate Markdown plugin</a>.</p><p>I've <a href="https://codeberg.org/edent/markdown-extra-unofficial/src/branch/edent-update" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">patched my fork of it</a> in two specific places.</p><p>Firstly, I set <code>$this-&gt;footnote_counter = 0;</code> in the initial config of the footnotes.</p><p>Secondly, I changed the display so that the ordered list began from zero: <code>&lt;ol start="0"&gt;</code></p><p>Wait… should that be zerothly and firstly?</p><p>There's no way to change footnote links to symbols like * or ♪. Perhaps I'll add that next<span>3</span>😉?</p><p>Anyway, I enjoy hacking around on my theme.</p> <ol start="0"><li><p>I've even got certificates in it!&nbsp;↩︎</p></li><li><p><a href="https://youtu.be/SNTzOBKs1bA?t=74" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Five is <em>right</em> out!</a>&nbsp;↩︎</p></li><li><p>Or is it "noughtst"?&nbsp;↩︎</p></li><li><p>OK, maybe there is a way. But it isn't particularly easy or automated.&nbsp;↩︎</p></li></ol> <p><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/footnotes/" target="_blank">#footnotes</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/html/" target="_blank">#HTML</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/markdown/" target="_blank">#markdown</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/wordpress/" target="_blank">#WordPress</a></p>
Terence Eden<p>🆕 blog! “How to make Markdown Footnotes start at Zero in WordPress”</p><p>As a dedicated and professional computer scientician0, I believe that all indices must start at zero. Not one, not two, but zero1. The zeroth2 element is sacrosanct to our creed; for in the beginning there was nothing. If you're using WordPress's JetPack, it uses an ancien…</p><p>👀 Read more: <a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-t</span><span class="invisible">o-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/</span></a><br>⸻<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordPress</span></a></p>
Christian Boulanger<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@osma" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>osma</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@storytracer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>storytracer</span></a></span> Hi-just found this old thread - we're just working on a <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/referenceextraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>referenceextraction</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/evaluation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evaluation</span></a> workflow involving <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> to measure their performance using a hand-annotated dataset of older scholarly articles with <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a> . Untrained <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/GROBID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GROBID</span></a> performs very badly but that does not mean that it will when properly trained with a good dataset.</p>
the roamer<p>"Hatchjaw remarks (unconfirmed, however, by Bassett) that throughout the whole ten years that went to the writing of The Country Album de Selby was obsessed with mirrors and had recourse to them so frequently that he claimed to have two left hands and to be living in a world arbitrarily bounded by a wooden frame." </p><p>Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman </p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FlannOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlannOBrien</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Mirrors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mirrors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/deSelby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deSelby</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Footnotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a></p>
Project Gutenberg<p>History’s Footnotes</p><p>The addition of footnotes to texts by historians began long before their supposed inventor, Leopold von Ranke, started using them (poorly, as it turns out).</p><p>By: Matthew Wills via @JSTOR_Daily</p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/historys-footnotes/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/historys-footn</span><span class="invisible">otes/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a></p>
Bharath M. Palavalli<p>Oh the joy of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a>, this one has “I am using British understatement here. The American equivalent would be ‘utter crap.’” :-). If you're interested in the complete article do read <a href="https://www.tcj.com/reviews/rogue-trooper-blighty-valley/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tcj.com/reviews/rogue-trooper-</span><span class="invisible">blighty-valley/</span></a>.</p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Composition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Composition</span></a> </p><p>...I'm pretty sure, using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VisualBasic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VisualBasic</span></a>, it should be possible.</p><p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/footnotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>footnotes</span></a> issue I described at the beginning of this thread is probably the most difficult part.</p><p>But leaving that point aside, it is simply capturing the length of the whole text, subtracting the length of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hashtags" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hashtags</span></a>, the heading, and the subtitle(s), as well as of the credits ("via/by...") from the 500 limit and then cutting the total blog texts in segments.</p><p>//</p>