Thanks for the feedback, Brad. To clarify, I know you can use {{#tag:ref}}
instead of <ref> as a workaround, but that's a terrible solution and
undocumented <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite> to boot. T3310
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3310> (allowing nested tags) has been
batted around for years (as the bug number attests) but doesn't seem to
have any traction (although no one seems willing to decline it either). 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. The fact that this solution has been rejected in favor of more
complicated solutions that either will never happen (T3310
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3310>) or don't actually solve the
problem (T8271 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T8271>) is disappointing,
IMO.
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 12:17 PM Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:56 AM Ryan Kaldari
<rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
While we're at it, can we add a separate
<note> tag,
so that we can add footnotes with their own references (rather than
having
to resort to templates)? See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T7265
(originally
requested in 2006!).
The bug you linked there was correctly marked as a duplicate of T8271. You
seem to have gotten it confused with T3310
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3310>, which is a separate issue with
the parser in general.
Also there's no actual need for templates for the current workaround, you
can use {{#tag:ref}} directly to nest them.
--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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