TheCite extension allows a user to create references as footnotes on a page.It adds twoparser hooks to MediaWiki,<ref> and<references />; these operate together to add citations to pages.
See the help page forusing the Cite extension for further information.
Cite folder to yourextensions/ directory.cdextensions/gitclonehttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/CitewfLoadExtension('Cite');
Done – Navigate toSpecial:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
Vagrant installation:
vagrant roles enable cite --provision$wgCiteBookReferencingEnables an experimental feature for sub-references when set totrue, see thehelp page. Default value:false
$wgCiteResponsiveReferencesDefault setting for responsive display of references.When set totrue, the references section will be displayed in multiple columns.See theusage documentation.Default value:true
$wgCiteVisualEditorOtherGroupWhen set totrue, the Cite toolbar button can be moved under the Insert menu. This is used on Wikivoyage sites. See theoriginal feature request.Default value:false.
By adding a definition in JSON toMediaWiki:Cite-tool-definition.json, the cite menu can be populated with tools that create references containing specific templates.The content of the definition should be an array containing a series of objects, one for each tool.Each object must containname,icon,template properties.An optionaltitle property can also be used to define the tool title in plain text.Thename property is a unique identifier for the tool, and also provides a fallback title for the tool by being transformed into a message key.The name is prefixed withvisualeditor-cite-tool-name-, and messages can be defined on Wiki.Some common messages are pre-defined for tool names such asweb,book,news,journal.
Example:
[{"name":"web","icon":"browser","template":"Cite web"},...]
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