The message cite_references_link_many_format_backlink_labels contains
e.g. "a b c …" and so on, to be used as alternative backlink labels
when a single reference is re-used multiple times. The default numeric
rendering is "1.1 1.2 …" and so on.
The two labels end in the message cite_references_link_many_format as
parameters $2 and $3. But only one of the two parameters is ever used.
By default the alternative label in $3 is unused.
This implies that everything about these alternative backlink labels
including the error message is effectively dead code most of the time,
never to be seen on the majority of wikis.
This change makes it possible to disable the message without breaking
anything. Instead the code will silently fallback to the default
behavior of showing the numeric label. This is much more efficient
than rendering possibly hundreds of error messages that never show
up anyhere. The same optimization is already done for the extremely
similar cite_link_label_group-… messages, see
FootnoteMarkFormatter::fetchCustomizedLinkLabel.
This is also partly motivated by T335129 as well as T321217.
Change-Id: Iab818d7db7eddaf7091234f6a22a18cdff70f8e8
Now the brackets can be hidden with `display: none;` or made
invisible but appear in copy-pasted content with `font-size: 0;`.
Bug: T370512
Change-Id: I21accb6bf9cdd7f96144cc9a762ff889e48efca4
Final step to get the i18n key names align with this extension.
Note that the few community overrides should have a copy of the
keys we're changing here in place so the overrides work for both
variants as long as the deployment is not finished.
Bug: T363156
Change-Id: Idf098d2cb04e8f02247b78e6b4866338eaf02b44
I'm importing the current keys from the Popups extension without
renaming. After that's done keys can be renamed and we can take
care off the fallback solutions.
Bug: T363156
Change-Id: I788c16c5bddc0df7f00dbbc39625b9adaa5bf184
Page property is removed immediately since $wgCiteBookReferencing has
never been enabled in production.
Bug: T239989
Change-Id: I6252fcf1485994244dca40470cc5955e8d4f6917
Implemented addition of 'extends' feature information to WikiEditor Help menu, under the extends feature flag
Bug: T361088
Change-Id: Ide15286527227f61a48386384b96ac965c5dec42
The message was part of the original patch that introduced the group
feature in 2009, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rECIT75004e33.
Notice how there was never a test scenario for this message. A test
was added in 2020 via I07738cc.
The message appears only in a rare edge-case when a group is entirely
unused in the text, and only when the group is not empty. The shortest
possible example is:
<references group=g>
<ref group=g name=a>a</ref>
</references>
Just adding something unrelated like `<ref group=g>x</ref>` to the
text changes the error message. Now the group is "used". But this
notion is confusing to begin with. References can be part of a group,
and we can use references, but we can't use groups as if they are a
separate entity.
A better error message already exists.
Notice how this special error message doesn't appear anywhere in the
Parsoid code path. That was already using the other, more generic
error message.
Bug: T269531
Change-Id: I63f663d76e45e6c3d664f145d9a564ee00ff53cd
Same as Icfa8215 where we removed the …_suffix messages.
This patch is not blocked on anything according to CodeSearch:
https://codesearch.wmcloud.org/search/?q=cite_references%3F_link_prefix
According to GlobalSearch there are 2 usages we need to talk about:
https://global-search.toolforge.org/?q=.®ex=1&namespaces=8&title=Cite.references%3F.link.prefix.*
zh.wiktionary replaces "cite_ref-" with "_ref-", and "cite_note-"
with "_note-", i.e. they did nothing but remove the word "cite". This
happened in 2006, with no explanation.
ka.wikibooks and ka.wikiquote replace "cite_note-" with "_შენიშვნა-",
which translates back to "_note-". One user did this in 2007,
16 seconds apart.
It appears like both are attempts to localize what can be localized,
no matter if it's really necessary or not.
https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Shibo77?offset=20060510https://ka.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Trulala?offset=20070219
Note how one user experimented with an "a" in some of the edits to
see what effect the change might have, to imediatelly revert it.
The modifications don't really have an effect on anything, except on
the anchors in the resulting <a href="#_ref-5"> and <sup id="_ref-5">
HTML. It might also be briefly visible in the browser's address bar
when such a link is clicked. We can only assume the two users did this
to make the URL appear shorter (?). A discussion apparently never
happened. Bot users are inactive.
Both pieces of HTML are generated in the Cite code. Removing the
messages will change all places the same time. All links will
continue to work. The only possible effect is that hard-coded
weblinks to an individual reference will link to the top of the
article instead. But:
a) This is extremely unlikely to happen. There is no reason to link
to a reference from outside of the article.
b) Such links are not guaranteed to work anyway as they can break
for a multitude of other reasons, e.g. the <ref> being renamed,
removed, or replaced.
c) Even if such a link breaks, it still links to the correct article.
There is also no on-wiki code on zh.wiktionary that would do anything
with the shortened prefix:
https://zh.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A%2F_%28ref%7Cnote%29-%2F&title=Special%3A%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns2=1&ns4=1&ns8=1&ns10=1&ns12=1&ns828=1&ns2300=1
I argue this is safe to remove, even without contacting the mentioned
communities first.
Bug: T321217
Change-Id: I160a119710dc35679dbdc2f39ddf453dbd5a5dfa
This classifies as a "warning" because we still show everything,
just with an error message appended.
Disabling the Parsoid tests right away hopefully makes it easier to
do the same change in Parsoid.
Bug: T202593
Depends-On: If14acd1070617ca8c4d15be6b1759bd47ead4926
Change-Id: I294b59f989f553932b40d08308906dd72d92d2cd
