A __reference-item__ is a fedwiki-item that is rendered by the about reference plugin. It displays references. A reference-item can be created by dragging-and-dropping a page-flag onto an about future-plugin
References are paragraphs that are used as bibliographic references to pages elsewhere in the federation. References can bypass the usual link resolution process to go straight to a remote site.
Here is an example:
A reference or reference link is a direct link to a specific resource on a specific site. It also has an editable field to describe the resource.
How They Works
Clicking on the mini-flag icon takes you to a wiki-page from the external site. Clicking on the text will display a page, or choice of pages from the. current neigborhood.
A reference consists of three parts.
Click the flag to see the remote page.
The remote pages show up side by side with pages from the origin wiki site. You can click on a remote pages flag (the larger icon) to go to the remote site and make it the origin.
How to Make Them
Drag the browser url of another Federated Wiki site to the factory to create a bibliographic reference of that page. This takes some dexterity and may not work in all browsers and operating systems.
Wiki mechanisms like Search or Recent Changes make pages full of references. You can drag these references to your own reference collections.
# See also - Fedwiki-item - Reference View - Reference Link