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Main refs which don't appear in an article are rendered with a bad backlink
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Description

When a main reference is unused but has associated sub-references, it should appear as a normal reference in the reflist and should have the number of its subreference base, ie. "[1]" for subrefs like "[1.1]". Currently these main refs are rendered as an up arrow, with a broken and nonexistent link:

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Define the desired behavior and implement.

Event Timeline

Change #1186486 had a related patch set uploaded (by Awight; author: Awight):

[mediawiki/services/mobileapps@master] [WIP] Use data-mw-footnote-number if available

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1186486

Change #1186531 had a related patch set uploaded (by Awight; author: Awight):

[mediawiki/services/mobileapps@master] Reuse test fixture from pagelib

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1186531

Change #1186531 abandoned by Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE):

[mediawiki/services/mobileapps@master] Reuse test fixture from pagelib

Reason:

Merged as part of I7d90079. 🎉

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1186531

Change #1186486 abandoned by Thiemo Kreuz (WMDE):

[mediawiki/services/mobileapps@master] Use data-mw-footnote-number if available

Reason:

Merged as part of I7d90079. 🎉

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1186486

This is waiting for next week's 1.45.0-wmf.20 train which will include Cite patch 3a46bff975f3 "Emit reflist item data-mw-footnote-number in Parsoid output". Mobileapps patches include support to read the footnote number when it becomes available in RDFa.

Change #1189455 had a related patch set uploaded (by Awight; author: Awight):

[mediawiki/services/mobileapps@master] Add tests showing that unused refs are still backlinked

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1189455

Change #1189456 had a related patch set uploaded (by Awight; author: Awight):

[mediawiki/services/mobileapps@master] Don't link from unused backlinks

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1189456

Change #1189455 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/services/mobileapps@master] Add tests showing that unused refs are still backlinked

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1189455

Change #1189456 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/services/mobileapps@master] Don't link from unused backlinks

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1189456