The German Technical Wishes team is planning to implement a feature we're calling "book referencing", which supports one level of nested references. This makes it possible to reference the same book several times in an article, pointing to various pages, without repeating the full citation.
A more complete description of the feature and a screenshot is available below, please feel free to comment in Phabricator or on this thread. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234030
There has already been some community discussion, but since we're proposing a small change to wikitext (the <ref> tag will accept a new attribute), I thought it would be appropriate to wait for a round of technical feedback before we begin coding.
Regards, Adam
-- Adam Wight - Developer - Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. - https://wikimedia.de