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<references /> output should probably be all collated at the end of the book/collection
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Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Book&bookcmd=render_collection&colltitle=Book:Hadronic_Matter&writer=rdf2latex

Having dozens of "references" sections, one at the end of each "subchapter" of the book (article), is extremely uncomfortable to navigate because you never know what page to open. On the other hand, having references as actual footnotes on the PDF page is liable to cause rendering issues.

Cristoph thinks the best is to group all references at the end of the book, as PediaPress did in mwlib.rl after a lot of thinking; and he convinced me. :)

More thinking at:


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Severity: enhancement

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:56 AM
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As already announced in Tech News, OfflineContentGenerator (OCG) will not be used anymore after October 1st, 2017 on Wikimedia sites. OCG will be replaced by Electron. You can read more on mediawiki.org.

Declining this task as "The Wikimedia Foundation's book rendering service has been withdrawn", plus OCG has been dead for years and superseded by Proton and Electron-PDFs on Wikimedia servers. If there is still an issue with currently available PDF export on Wikimedia servers, then please file a new ticket with updated information and steps to reproduce. Thanks!