On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 5:05 PM Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The bug I linked to, T7265
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T7265>,
seems
like a relatively simple, straightforward solution to a common use case
that still doesn't have a real solution: creating footnotes that have
references.
Hi Ryan, thanks for bringing up this request. I see that the <note> tag
(T7265)
discussion goes back even further than the task, for example on the
footnotes talk
page [1], as early as 2005 [2]. Un-merging the task was a good call, maybe
the
next step would be to promote it during the next community wishlist survey,
or elaborate enough that it would make a good mentorship project.
There might be some beneficial overlap from improvements to be made to the
marker number sequence logic? We noticed that the VisualEditor module [3]
and
backend [4] each do their own numbering and neither code is open to
extension.
-Adam
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Footnotes
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(footnotes)/Ar…
[3]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Cite/+/531900/
[4]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/Cite/+/530399/