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**Steps to replicate the issue** (include links if applicable): * In a normal browser window, make sure you are logged out. * Set your window width to 1300px. * Visit [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#External_links | a page with many refs ]] and click on a reference. **What happens?**: * You should see the default skin * On clicking on a ref you should be taken to a References or External Links section, showing a single-column list of references. ** (The default column width for both {{reflist}} and <references/> is set to 30em, and the body in default Vector at this window width is just under 60em.) * This is harder to read and on average 10-15% more scrolling than a two column reflist **What should have happened instead?**: * Two-column refs with a width of 25em is preferable to single column. * However a column width of 30em has been found preferable to 25em on en:wp. * The default CSS for <references/> should set column width to 25em for Vector 2022, but 30em for Vector 2010. * {{Reflist}} is used on 6 million pages, <references/> is directly used on more. Related [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Reflist#Update_default_width_to_25_em? | discussion ]] on en:wp highlights why it's not enough for en:wp template editors to change the defaults for the reflist template used by all. What is a clean way to address this? >I'd rather see us fix Vector 2022 locally with CSS than change the reflist default that has worked well for many years. I can easily get two reflist columns on my 13-inch laptop screen in Vector 2022 with CSS that fixes the [excess] whitespace, leaving me with 69em of space for content (it is 94em in Vector 2010 on the same screen) > as somebody who doesn't use V22, I don't want to see changes to the template which will affect what I see to accomodate V22. > we would presumably also want [this css change] implemented in <references /> since there are plenty of articles with <references /> instead of {{reflist}} as the default widths are the same at the moment

**Steps to replicate the issue** (include links if applicable): * In a normal browser window, make sure you are logged out. * Set your window width to 1300px. * Visit [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#External_links | a page with many refs ]] and click on a reference. **What happens?**: * You should see the default skin * On clicking on a ref you should be taken to a References or External Links section, showing a single-column list of references. ** (The default column width for both {{reflist}} and <references/> is set to 30em, and the body in default Vector at this window width is just under 60em.) * This is harder to read and on average 10-15% more scrolling than a two column reflist **What should have happened instead?**: * Two-column refs with a width of 25em is preferable to single column. * However a column width of 30em has been found preferable to 25em on en:wp. * The default CSS for <references/> should set column width to 25em for Vector 2022, but 30em for Vector 2010. * {{Reflist}} is used on 6 million pages, <references/> is directly used on more. Related [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Reflist#Update_default_width_to_25_em? | discussion ]] on en:wp highlights why it's not enough for en:wp template editors to change the defaults for the reflist template used by all. What is a clean way to address this? >I'd rather see us fix Vector 2022 locally with CSS than change the reflist default that has worked well for many years. I can easily get two reflist columns on my 13-inch laptop screen in Vector 2022 with CSS that fixes the [excess] whitespace, leaving me with 69em of space for content (it is 94em in Vector 2010 on the same screen) > as somebody who doesn't use V22, I don't want to see changes to the template which will affect what I see to accomodate V22. > we would presumably also want [this css change] implemented in <references /> since there are plenty of articles with <references /> instead of {{reflist}} as the default widths are the same at the moment > the default column width seems to actually be pulled from the Cite extension: `[[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/Cite/%2B/refs/heads/master/modules/ext.cite.styles.css | ext.cite.styles.css ]]`.

**Steps to replicate the issue** (include links if applicable): * In a normal browser window, make sure you are logged out. * Set your window width to 1300px. * Visit [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#External_links | a page with many refs ]] and click on a reference. **What happens?**: * You should see the default skin * On clicking on a ref you should be taken to a References or External Links section, showing a single-column list of references. ** (The default column width for both {{reflist}} and <references/> is set to 30em, and the body in default Vector at this window width is just under 60em.) * This is harder to read and on average 10-15% more scrolling than a two column reflist **What should have happened instead?**: * Two-column refs with a width of 25em is preferable to single column. * However a column width of 30em has been found preferable to 25em on en:wp. * The default CSS for <references/> should set column width to 25em for Vector 2022, but 30em for Vector 2010. * {{Reflist}} is used on 6 million pages, <references/> is directly used on more. Related [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Reflist#Update_default_width_to_25_em? | discussion ]] on en:wp highlights why it's not enough for en:wp template editors to change the defaults for the reflist template used by all. What is a clean way to address this? >I'd rather see us fix Vector 2022 locally with CSS than change the reflist default that has worked well for many years. I can easily get two reflist columns on my 13-inch laptop screen in Vector 2022 with CSS that fixes the [excess] whitespace, leaving me with 69em of space for content (it is 94em in Vector 2010 on the same screen) > as somebody who doesn't use V22, I don't want to see changes to the template which will affect what I see to accomodate V22. > we would presumably also want [this css change] implemented in <references /> since there are plenty of articles with <references /> instead of {{reflist}} as the default widths are the same at the moment > the default column width seems to actually be pulled from the Cite extension: `[[ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/extensions/Cite/%2B/refs/heads/master/modules/ext.cite.styles.css | ext.cite.styles.css ]]`.