It appears that recent changes to the way that parser caching is handled are causing
unexpected behavior from Cite when references are present.

I believe the change creating the problem is revision 16211 to OutputPage.php that tstarling
made on the 24th.

For examples of the problem see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cite_php_broken.png
(showing a large number of "blank" references at the start)

Or simply edit any page employing Cite. (If section editting, the bug will occur if the
section has references or if the whole page is editted.)

Also Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%
29#Mysterious_problem_involving_footnotes_and_citation_templates, for discussion.

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