Spun-off from: {T7984}
The behavior if the reference is defined outside the section edited is quite disappointing. This basically are two cases:
# defined inside <references></references>
# defined anywhere else outside the section that is edited
Suggestions that have come up so far to fix this problem:
* People can use Anomie's [[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js | ajaxpreview.js ]] (T7984#105262)
* Adding a "Preview full article" option to section previews (T7984#105265)
* Parsing the whole page AND the section and use the references from the page parse, to "fill in the blanks" of the section edit preview. (Disadvantage: performance impact, whereas performance is an oft heard reason to use section editing)
* Use a previously cached version of the references of the current version to amend the context for the section preview. (T7984#1962535). Disadvantage, the 'current' version is not necessarily the version you are editing).