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Bug 45415 - Mention potentially missing </ref> tag in Cite error message
Mention potentially missing </ref> tag in Cite error message
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
Cite (Other open bugs)
master
All All
: Low minor (vote)
: MW 1.22 version
Assigned To: Nemo
: easy
Depends on:
Blocks: messages
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Reported: 2013-02-26 09:46 UTC by vssun
Modified: 2014-03-03 21:03 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description vssun 2013-02-26 09:46:17 UTC 
Consider the following wiki text
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Sample Text 1<ref>Reference 1</ref>

Sample Text 2<ref>Reference 2
== References ==
<references/>

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Even the references tag exists, the error message in en.wikipedia is 

"Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{Reflist}} template or a <references /> tag; see the help page."

Other wikis (for eg. ml.wikipedia) also share the similar error message. 

Please add, "Or missing </ref> tag" in the message.
Comment 1 Luis Felipe Schenone 2013-02-27 05:48:25 UTC 
Adding just "Or missing </ref> tag" might be confusing, how about adding "Also, a closing </ref> tag may be missing." ?
Comment 2 vssun 2013-02-27 09:33:01 UTC 
Thats fine
Comment 3 Gerrit Notification Bot 2013-08-11 10:27:19 UTC 
Change 78652 had a related patch set uploaded by Nemo bis:
Mention potentially missing </ref> tag in Cite error message

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78652
Comment 4 Gerrit Notification Bot 2013-08-17 10:26:26 UTC 
Change 78652 merged by jenkins-bot:
Mention potentially missing </ref> tag in Cite error message

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78652
Comment 5 Nemo 2013-08-17 10:27:15 UTC 
Approved by Nikerabbit.
Comment 6 Gadget850 2013-08-24 14:33:42 UTC 
The English Wikipedia uses custom messages, so this patch won't change the message there. Looking at the patch, I don't see translations. The English Wikipedia uses {{broken ref}} to format the messages for the top languages.

It would be better to fix bug 21798 and give the proper error when the last </ref> is missing.
Comment 7 Nemo 2013-08-24 19:20:27 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> The English Wikipedia uses custom messages, so this patch won't change the
> message there. Looking at the patch, I don't see translations. The English
> Wikipedia uses {{broken ref}} to format the messages for the top languages.

Translations will be updated on translatewiki.net; you can ask an update on en.wiki on the talk page of the message, with {{editprotected}}.
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