cite error

sometimes, a ref generates "cite error", e.g., when you use "name="xxx" with an empty ref, but there is no "real" ref with this name.

it would be useful to be able to find all pages with such errors.

mw contains a mechanism to track such things, called Special:TrackingCategories. there may be a better way to find all pages with cite errors - i'll be happy to learn.

if no such way exists, i suggest to track those through the special page meant for it.

peace. קיפודנחש (talk) 14:30, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Reading variables from the page in Extension:CiteThisPage

This post by Jdforrester (WMF) was moved on 2015-02-17. You can find it at Extension talk:CiteThisPage#c-Shyamal-2015-02-04T09:04:00.000Z-Reading_variables_from_the_page_in_Extension:CiteThisPage. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 02:21, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

How to replace 1.1 1.2 with a b c in reference footnotes

Hi

Can anywody please help to update 1.1, 1.2 number to a b c and ↑ to ^ in reference footnotes I tried this http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite#Set_references_to_use_.5E_and_letters_like_Wikipedia but still not working

Thanks 59.91.254.3 10:01, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

I am having the same issue on my wiki. Updated these system message pages on my wiki:

MediaWiki:Cite references link one from:

<li id="$1">[[#$2{{!}}↑]] $3</li>

to:

<li id="$1">[[#$2{{!}}^]] $3</li>

MediaWiki:Cite references link many from:

<li id="$1">↑ $2 $3</li>

to:

<li id="$1">^ $2 $3</li>

And finally MediaWiki:Cite references link many format from:

[[#$1|<sup>$2</sup>]]

to:

[[#$1|<sup>$3</sup>]]

As per the Extension:Cite page customization instructions.

Rebuilt the page using the ref call afterwards, etc.

And no joy at all.

Anyone have any insights how to get this to work? Lestatdelc~mediawikiwiki (talk) 10:17, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Hover-over text

Since I upgraded my wiki to 1.24.2, I not longer get a popup when I hover over a citation number. Is there a way to bring this back up? Varkman (talk) 03:53, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

use $wgCiteEnablePopups option

I updated to the media wiki 1.24.1 version, pop-up function after the update does not work.

I hope that this function is activated again. How do I? 223.33.153.101 16:26, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

This fetaure was removed in Gerrit change 145023. Florianschmidtwelzow (talk) 13:39, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

How do I use this feature back?

popus using gadgets do not like it. 221.157.74.223 15:37, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Extension requires Modules, which Installation instructions say nothing about!

OK, so I installed this extension and followed the manual install instructions exactly as this page discusses.

However, all the ref citations attempted resulted in script failures.

It looks to me like there was a complete failure to load in or add the Module:Citation/CS1, Date_validator, Whitelist (and maybe one more, I forget).

I wound up adding those by hand by copying code from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Citation/CS1 (etc) which seems just... nasty.

Did I miss something? Did I install the extension incorrectly? Or am I actually supposed to go through and create those Module: files in my wiki? If the latter, it seems to me that the instructions for installing this extension should mention the need to add in the modules, plus pointers so that other folks don't wind up googling their day away to figure this out.

Thanks. 2607:F720:1300:1241:5CED:55D5:839E:35C1 21:28, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

This extension works out of the box as described. There are however wikis like e.g. English Wikipedia that add additional dependencies via custom templates crated on wiki. In your case it requires the Scribunto to be installed as well as adding not just templates but also modules. [[kgh]] (talk) 09:49, 25 April 2015 (UTC)

Recent change broke enwp nested ref Template:Refn template

enwp's nested template ({{:en:refn}}) broke with a recent change that we've traced back to "#tag:ref". Could someone help us figure out whether a recent Mediawiki change caused this or what our next steps should be? More information available at en:Template talk:Refn#Refn references getting sent to the bottom of the page? Thanks – czar 19:30, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Reported bug at phabricator:T100477 – czar 23:58, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Empty reference list message

There should probably be a customizable message for when there are no inline references in a MediaWiki-powered article but there is a reference tag at the bottom. • speedy • 🔔︎ • 🚀︎ • 15:03, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes, maybe a tracking category could do the trick. OTOH an unused <references /> apparently has no effect at all, which problem are you trying to solve? –Be..anyone 💩 01:35, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

It should designate that the reference list is empty so as not to leave empty sections on the page. e.g:

There are currently no references within the article.

I have tried and failed to reproduce this effect using #ifeq, #tag and <references/>. • speedy • 🔔︎ • 🚀︎ • 23:13, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Just wondering if anyone has figured out how to tell if the reference list is empty. I have been trying to do this as well. 98.111.198.41 (talk) 18:45, 14 February 2017 (UTC)