T68860: Cite: If there's no <references /> block on the page, show one automatically below the content rather than showing an error added a missing reference list for simple references. This functionality was no implemented for references with groups. This should be added to match.
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- T68860: Cite: If there's no <references /> block on the page, show one automatically below the content rather than showing an error
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Maybe grouped references should "fall through", so if you have 3 <ref>s and 4 <ref group="foo">s and a simple <references /> (or now, none) you get 7 items in the reference list, maybe split somehow?
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(Quoting James Forrester from comment #1)
Maybe grouped references should "fall through", so if you have 3 <ref>s and
4 <ref group="foo">s and a simple <references /> (or now, none) you get 7
items in the reference list, maybe split somehow?
Gadget850, what do you think of this idea?
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One way would be to set "MediaWiki:Cite error group refs without references" to <references group=$1 />. But you would have to suppress "MediaWiki:Cite error" and the <strong class="error mw-ext-cite-error">.
"MediaWiki:Cite error group refs without references" has been modified on the test wiki.
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Tthat's what I was asking about. We need to decide how to mark reference groups when we add them automatically.
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Trying again, because doing a quick check before hitting 'Save Changes' is hard:
That's basically what will end up happening, but we still need to decide how to mark reference *groups* when we add them automatically. Your comment does not really address that.
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I just tested this on en.WP with 1.28.0-wmf.15 (rMW878bcfc5d096) using Cite version eadf04d, which has @matmarex's implementation both of display of a references list when no references list is defined, and preview of references, for which the following occurs:
The grouped references are caught in the preview and displayed as a separate list immediately below the non-grouped references list. They are, however, not caught on the normal wikipage. (See permalink to my sandbox.)
That seems odd. :D
I agree that these should probably "fall through" to a root reference definition, or if none present, to the automatically displayed reference list, and then grouped as they are presently in the preview where there is no references list invocation.