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Contecatenated authors limited to 5 in extension
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

Use extension to cite https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04158

or any other url with more than 5 authors, on de wiki (or presumably any wiki that uses single fields for authors

What happens?:

5 authors are added

What should have happened instead?:

All authors should be added

Reported here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:X0yultwfmqgkvg5f

Event Timeline

If there is any documentation on English Wikipedia which says that after some arbitrary number, et al is displayed automatically, it is wrong and should be modified. All authors added are displayed today.

Pretty sure tangential to the report, but feel it should be addressed. :)

Change 851646 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mvolz; author: Mvolz):

[mediawiki/extensions/Citoid@master] [WIP] Fix author limit bug

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/851646

Change 851646 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/Citoid@master] Fix author limit bug

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/851646

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