Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Citations/Structuring of individual references

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Structuring of individual references

We should know how to add a reference to a text and how it appears at the end of an article! I don't know exactly how it works! (Machine translation from German.)

Problem: In the test wiki, there is a new option for structuring individual references, with which one can refer to several places in the same work.
Who would benefit:
Proposed solution: Please activate this function.
More comments:
Phabricator tickets: Project page (in German), T100645
Proposer: Tsor (talk) 15:47, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Fixed Link to project page --Bicycle Tourer (talk) 19:43, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Activation of this feature will finish repeated discussions about how to abbreviate similar citations with only small differences, e.g. different page numbers. Today authors are inventing special mechanisms using template:anchor, which will be very difficult to maintain in future. Thes feature could probably include a solution to the requested new feature "Re-use citations with changed page number in visual editor". It is esp. useful for power editors, who create long articles. BR --Bicycle Tourer (talk) 19:43, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is this a Visual Editor thing (I don't use VE)? If a source is cited multiple times with different page numbers, it's easy to cite them properly with the source editor. RedWolf (talk) 19:43, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The feature is independent from VE. It allows to group different references (e.g. different page-number) of the same source, and by this there is no need to copy and paste the whole source for every reference (I guess your "it's easy" means copy and paste) BR --Bicycle Tourer (talk) 20:59, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I understand this request, this is an extension already been worked on by WMDE under the title "Book referencing" since some while. It was planned to be released in 2020, now postponed to 2021: [1]

--Matthiaspaul (talk) 21:38, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Dr747 (talk) 18:31, 8 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support ──post by kenny2wiki Talk Contribs 02:35, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Kinz (talk) 10:01, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bicycle Tourer (talk) 18:40, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 18:42, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Naronnas (talk) 19:09, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tsor (talk) 19:10, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aka (talk) 19:21, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wi-luc-ky (talk) 20:40, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- seth (talk) 21:33, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Meyer-Konstanz (talk) 22:40, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Chiananda (talk) 01:13, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Bilorv (talk) 01:24, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Furfur^{⁂ Discussion} 03:14, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support BoldLuis (talk) 11:28, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Фред-Продавец звёзд (talk) 19:19, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Michael Z. 2020-12-11 22:14 z 22:14, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Matthiasb (talk) 23:14, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Helder 09:53, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wostr (talk) 20:54, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Paperoastro (talk) 21:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rdyornot (talk) 22:23, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edgars2007 (talk) 09:51, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gufosowa (talk) 10:57, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support _• _• _hugarheimur 09:12, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Been waiting for this for a long time. It would obviate any further need for w:en:Template:rp. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ< 05:26, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Leyo (talk) 10:56, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mihir Narayanan (talk) 02:34, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Spinney Hill (talk) 14:12, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Stephan Hense (talk) 22:46, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Risk Engineer (talk) 15:50, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Glad this is happening, please also allow quoting multiple passages from a single book to support multiple different statements (rp doesn't work for this). HLHJ (talk) 23:44, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Linseneintopf (talk) 15:33, 21 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]