On the French Wikipedia any number which identifies a given reference, say 1, is not meant to appear in brackets.
When VEditing any page instead (try https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_aux_Oreilles for example) it does become [1], and then it's back to plain 1 once the page is saved.
So VE is not being much WYSIWYG here. Can/should this be fixed? Thanks!
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T74372 Wikimedia Italia's Cotton book (tracking) | |||
| Open | None | T87268 Copyright license and attribution issues (tracking) | |||
| Declined | None | T73805 Credits section in PDF contains bogus {{int:Coll-attribution-page | |||
| Open | None | T73804 dir attribution on <references/> is ignored. | |||
| Resolved | ssastry | T45235 Cite: Parsoid's port does not support all of the PHP extension's config options and i18n messages | |||
| Resolved | • GWicke | T58240 Cite: References should be rendered using the <Cite reference link> message (which varies by wiki) |
This is because the message <Cite reference link> is customised on frwiki to remove the square brackets that are there by default - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Cite_reference_link - and Parsoid is re-creating the appearance of these rather than re-using the message.
Or possibly we could make this rendering be done using CSS rather than a message, which could be used by both, and is a cleaner approach.
We already style auto-numbered external links with CSS, and should be able to use the same technique for citations as well.