Author: mwander

Description:
When there is an opening <references> tag but the corresponding closing </references> tag is missing, all further content is not rendered.

Feature request:
MediaWiki should display a warning to the user, similar to a missing <references> tag when there are existing <ref> entries.

Severity:
This happens regularly when users mistakenly attempt to close section with <references/>. I fixed a couple of hundred of these errors on dewiki (1.21wmf12).

Example wiki code:
Text.<ref name="namedref"/>

<references>
<ref name="namedref">some reference</ref>
<references/>

Ignored content

This section is now ignored.
{{Ignored|template}}

Version: master
Severity: normal