If you want to use footnotes on any of your wiki documents you are in the right place. This is going to take a short, painless lesson in HTML. There are two components to a footnote in any text: note itself and the reference. In HTML designating the note and designating the reference are done with the same tag, A - short for anchor.

I will show you how to mark-up the note first. I've taken a note from ye olde definitional argumentation:

Crowley, Sharon and Hawhee, Debbie. Ancient Rhetorics for Contempory Students.

To mark that this is a note in our document we place the A tag around it, in the general following format:

<a name="one">Crowley, Sharon and Hawhee, Debbie. Ancient Rhetorics for Contempory Students.</a>

Alternately, you could do it like this:

<a name="one">1.</a> Crowley, Sharon and Hawhee, Debbie. Ancient Rhetorics for Contempory Students.

Everything must be as shown above, including the </a>, which is otherwise known as a closing tag. Then, we take the actual text and add another set of a tags around the citation, which we have named one and numbered 1.

Long ago, Cicero wrote that “when you have taken all the qualities of the thing you wish to define has in common with other things, you should pursue the analysis until you produce its own distinctive quality which can be transferred to no other thing” (Topics v, 28, cited in Crowley and Hawhee, 216).<a href="#one">1</a>

Click to see it in action.