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It is possible to put place footnotes in articles. When a footnote is inserted, a small number reference will appear in place of the footnote. The content of the footnote will appear at the bottom of the page.

What you type:

<footnote>Text to go in footnote</footnote>

What you see:

1

It is also possible to embed wiki markup in footnotes.

[edit] Examples

Case Western Reserve University was founded in 1826<footnote>from [[Case Western Reserve University]]</footnote>.

yields

Case Western Reserve University was founded in 18262.

(note the footnote at the bottom of the page)


  1. Text to go in footnote
  2. from Case Western Reserve University
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