Hello,
A new feature called Reference Previews [1] was introduced as a beta
feature last year. After more than a year of testing, bug fixing and other
improvements it will soon leave the beta state in the first wikis, enabling
it by default for all users including readers. New features like this are
deployed in multiple batches, to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Therefore, we are currently looking for a few small or medium-sized wikis
that are interested in being among the first to gain the new feature.
If your community is interested, please reach out to me on my discussion
page or via email.
The feature shows you references in a small popup when you hover over the
reference number in square brackets. This way you can look up a reference
without jumping down to the bottom of the page. The feature is part of the
MediaWiki Popups extension [2], which is also used for the Page Previews
feature [3]. Both features can be turned on and off together by the user.
Several wikis have a gadget called “RefTooltips” to provide the same
functionality [4]. The new extension will disable itself if RefTooltips is
used. This way, it is up to the users and communities to decide if they
want to disable the gadget in favor of the new feature.
Reference Previews originated from a wish from the German-speaking wiki
community and was developed collaboratively by Wikimedia Deutschland the
Wikimedia Foundation. If you'd like to know more about this feature, please
visit the project page.[1]
For the Technical Wishes team,
Michael Schönitzer
1:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews
2:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Popups
3:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews
4:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234204#6244041
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