@Nnemo: Thanks! What does "I change the ref" mean, for better steps to reproduc? (Also, could you try to avoid adding "MediaWiki-General-or-Unknown" to VisualEditor bugs? Thanks!)

In T116520#1751503, @Aklapper wrote:

@Nnemo: Thanks! What does "I change the ref" mean, for better steps to reproduc?

I click the ref call. I get the ref dialog with the content of the ref. I change the content of the ref. I validate the change in the ref dialog.

This is not an iOS-safari problem only. This happens also on Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome:

For example, I was fixing the [2] reference of this page, using Visual Editor, and when I changed it, the references section at the bottom of the page didn't reflect the change:

Note that this happens only during page editing. When the page is saved, the references section is updated correctly on page view. Note also that there's not a "display preview" since VE is supposed to be the preview. This was a very awkward user experience for me.

I'm wondering if some modification has been introduced so only the edited parts of the page are re-rendered in Visual Editor instead of the whole page (to save resources), and it didn't took in account the references part, which should be updated when other parts of the page change.

In T116520#2407333, @Ciencia_Al_Poder wrote:

This is not an iOS-safari problem only. This happens also on Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome:

No. The bug you're reporting is T52769: Adding or updating a reference in VisualEditor does not update fake references blocks inside templates, and is caused by using {{Listaref}} instead of the proper <references />.

@Jdforrester-WMF I don't see how is it different from T52769, that page has not a <references /> but a template containing it... This looks like a duplicate

In T116520#2414810, @Ciencia_Al_Poder wrote:

@Jdforrester-WMF I don't see how is it different from T52769, that page has not a <references /> but a template containing it... This looks like a duplicate

Aha, you're right; when I looked at it I believe I thought it was using a real reference list. Will merge.