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Bug 5810 - Transcluded references can appear in wrong references section
Transcluded references can appear in wrong references section
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
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: Normal minor with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2006-05-03 14:03 UTC by Steve Bennett
Modified: 2008-08-11 17:34 UTC (History)
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Description Steve Bennett 2006-05-03 14:03:00 UTC
Example case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Stevage/mwreuropeancapitals#Notes

Here, I have transcluded about 10 articles into one. Some of the sub articles
use the new referencing system. Unfortunately here, the Rome article only
actually defines 1 reference, but ends up with 58,
because all the references defined in earlier articles transcluded into the
parent article are shown again.

Is there a workaround? The simplest solution would appear to be making <refs>
only be shown the first time a <references> section is used. In subsequent
<references> sections they should not be shown.
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2006-05-03 22:06:39 UTC
I don't think that would work the way extensions are currently handled.
All <references> tags would be handled after all <refs>, and they don't 
have any positional information.
Comment 2 Steve Bennett 2006-05-09 13:02:34 UTC
Would it be possible to have a <clearrefs> tag, which purges the current cache?
In other words so that:


some<ref>foo</ref> text
<references />
<clearrefs />
intermediate text

more<ref>bar</ref> text
<references />

would produce:
some[1] text
1. foo
intermediate text

more[1] text
1. bar

Currently, the following is produced:
some[1] text
1. foo
2. bar
intermediate text

more[1] text
1. foo
2. bar

If transclusion is used, then the "2. bar" does not appear in the first
references section.
Tests:
Without transclusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stevage/bug5810
With transclusion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stevage/bug5810a
Comment 3 Brion Vibber 2006-05-09 20:40:32 UTC
No, it would not.
Comment 4 Philippe Verdy 2006-05-30 13:38:50 UTC
We have <ref name="x"> to create multiple referencesto the same note.

But why not having <ref type="x"> for creating several independant lists in articles? Then to generate the 
list of references of the same type we would have <references type="x" /> and this would select only the 
references of that type (the absence of the type attribute in references tag would list all untyped refs 
only).

We could optionally use <references type="*" /> to generate all references, merged into a single list, and 
<references type="x,y" /> to select only the enumerated types, or <references type="x,y,-z" /> to exclude 
refs with type z (the selection of refs to generate is made by the union of positive type selectors, minus 
the union of negative selectors.)

The text in a <ref>element may also embed other text in a <ref>, allowing notes to refer to each other. (But 
first, the parser should be corrected so that it collects all footnotes in the article, including those that 
are wiki-encoded after the <references /> wikitag.

There would still be only one numbering, whatever the type specified in <ref type="...">...</ref> elements.
Comment 5 v111p 2006-06-02 09:26:18 UTC
I suggest instead of "type", "group" is used, and every group is printed with a <references 
group="name_of_the_group"/>. <references/> (no group specified) prints the rest of the references. 
What Philippe suggests is too complicated. Why would you want to print 2, 3 or all reference groups 
into one list??
Comment 6 Brion Vibber 2006-06-02 18:34:48 UTC
The parser in 1.7 now processes tags in order, making it 
possible in theory to do a clear at each <references/>.

I note that your sample page no longer uses any 
transclusions, making it impossible to test the current 
situation.
Comment 7 Steve Bennett 2006-06-02 19:44:38 UTC
yeah, someone pointed out rightly that I was transcluding all the categories as
well and killed it. do the test cases in my comment #2 help?
Comment 8 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2006-06-12 16:29:31 UTC
Bug 6271 would allow one implementation of this.
Comment 9 Jelte (WebBoy) 2008-08-11 17:34:57 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> The parser in 1.7 now processes tags in order, making it 
> possible in theory to do a clear at each <references/>.

Done in r32290 by sanbeg.

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