To brion for comments.

ssanbeg wrote:

Wouldn't it be almost as easy for your extension to subclass Cite? Then you could provide whatever hooks you wanted by overriding the appropriate methods. The structure shouldn't change too often, so the maintenance shouldn't be too involved.

jimhu wrote:

Interesting alternative. But it seems like it could be more baroque to have my extension just to provide hooks into Cite, and then have other extensions depend on that, instead of just adding one line of code to Cite.

Bumping --

Cite has gotten a bit more complicated, with support for multiple groups. If this is still required, where should it go and what parameters should it take?

jimhu wrote:

Thanks Brion,

I will look at the version of Cite in svn to try to answer these questions.

@brion, @Mvolz, I wonder whether you could help assessing whether this request still makes sense.

fwiw https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ProcessCite is currently used by 8 MediaWiki instances, and I'm not sure any of them requires this hook.

Unfortunately I don't know anything about the Cite extension at all; maybe ask Timo or Roan?