Mana kǝrmaye:5 months ago4 mana ngwu4 am nguu manazan
As we have discussed abt the issue of mint translator as we talked about how we prefer the google content translator to be default for translation in central kanuri Wikipedia if possible this is our chance to achieve that. i have submitted a task in phabricator abt the issue. And i need ur opinions about thatUmargana1 (mana)21:25, 29 Shawur 2025 (WAT)Reply
Hi, I’m Johannes from WMDE’sTechnical Wishes team. Sorry for writing in English, please support us by translating this message!
We’ve been working on a new feature to improve re-using references with different details:Sub-referencing. We’ve deployed the feature to German-language Wikipedia four months ago. After iterating on the initial feedback we’re ready to rollout sub-referencing to additional wikis.
What to expect?
You will notice footnotes like [1.1] in Wikipedia articles, if citations are used with different details (e.g. different page numbers) using sub-references. We are implementing along-held community wish: Many Wikipedia articles currently contain references that are almost identical but differ in details such as the page number. This leads to cluttered reference lists which make it harder for readers to quickly assess how many different sources have been used. And unlike withidentical reuses, re-using references with different detailspreviously required duplicating the reference, which led to longer wikitext and –especially in VisualEditor – also to more time expenditure.
Sub-referencing solves these issue: We are adding a newwikitext attributedetails="..." – similar to the existing attributeref name="...".VisualEditor users can use the "add details" button to insert sub-references. You can find detailed instructionson our project page. We alsopublished a report about our learnings on the first three months of sub-referencing on German Wikipedia which you might find interesting.
Deployment
We’ll likely deploy sub-referencing to this project on February 17. Please let me know if you have any questions. We look forward to your feedback on the new feature, either onour discussion page, myuser talk page, or as a reply to this post.
