WMDE Technical Wishes/References
| References | |
|---|---|
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| Status | In progress |
| Duration | 2025 – 2027 |
| Origin | Technical Wishes Survey 2024 |
| Phabricator | project board |
| Responsible | Technical Wishes Team |
In the 2024 Technical Wishes survey on German Wikipedia, community members selected „Improvements to references“ as the next focus area for Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team. This page documents our research and development progress on this topic. Comments and questions are welcome on the talk page!
Status
[edit]We've been in conversations with community members about potential improvements for 2026. We'll publish further announcements soon – meanwhile our work on Sub-referencing continues.
Projects
[edit]Confirmed projects
[edit]| Project | On some wikis | On all wikis |
|---|---|---|
| Research on future improvements |
 In development |
In development |
| VisualEditor automatic reference names
Improving automatically generated reference names when re-using references in VisualEditor |
In development |
In development |
| Reference Previews improvements
Testing improvements to Reference Previews |
In development |
In development |
| Citoid on smaller wikis
Supporting smaller wikis to enable Citoid and the VisualEditor citation tool |
In development |
In development |
| Smaller wishes |
In development |
In development |
| Bug fixes |
In development |
In development |
More projects will be added to this list.