Apologies for cross-posting

Hello. I'd like to let you know that Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team is planning to deploy a new feature for sub-referencing.

For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Soon, there will be a MediaWiki solution for this, and it will work in wikitext and in Visual Editor. If you want to know more, take a look at this project page.

Please note that the new feature will be optional – if you prefer other ways of referencing, you can keep using them. However, you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by others.

To make sure that sub-referencing works well for you, we are asking for your feedback: 

• Please try the current state of development on beta wiki and let us know what you think. 
• Sign up here to get updates and/or invitations to participate in user research activities.

We plan to deploy this feature to the Wikimedia wikis later this year. Before that, we will check in with creators/maintainers of reference-related tools and templates. And we will send more announcements when we get closer to the deployment date. If you can already help us spread the message on your wikis, that would be much appreciated!

For Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team,