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Cite
The Cite extension to MediaWiki provides a way for wiki editors to add references and footnotes to articles.
See
mw:Extension:Cite
for technical documentation on installing and configuring the extension. See
mw:Help:Cite
for user documentation.
Cite is responsible for implementing the
and
tags in wikitext. Integrations are provided for the MediaWiki wikitext parser, Parsoid,
WikiEditor
VisualEditor
, and the reading interface.
Terminology
CE – ContentEditable, see
MDN
Cite – Citation, the act of referencing a source.
DC – Dublin Core, used as a prefix in Parsoid's RDFa.
Details – Attribute that marks a sub-reference as such as well as provides the sub-reference's extra content.
DM – Data model
List-defined reference (LDR) – When a named
is defined inside of a
section.
MW – MediaWiki
MWT – MediaWiki transclusion. Used by Parsoid in e.g.
about="#mwt1"
. This "about id" marks a "DOM forest" of un-nested siblings as belonging to the same template transclusion. More in the
Parsoid DOM spec
Note – An item in the reference list, a.k.a. a "footnote". Link targets use "note" since the first 2005 draft of this extension.
More details
Ref – Reference
Reflist – Refers to either community-maintained
{{reflist}}
templates or the raw
tag that marks the position in the article where the reference list should appear.
SA – Standalone
Selser – Selective serializer, an extra step in Parsoid's HTML to wikitext serialization to minimize the diff.
VE –
VisualEditor
WT – Wikitext
History
The Cite extension was actually meant to implement a
tag in
2005
. Because that conflicts with the HTML tag it became
the
same day
. In 2014 the tag was
removed
and moved to a separate
CiteThisPage
extension, along with the
Special:Cite
special page.
The original
2005
draft of this extension suggested a
syntax, e.g.
…
, and called that concept "key". This was changed to
just
3 days
later. Still the term "key" remained in various places. See
T299280
for the full history.
A 2019 draft suggested an alternate sub-referencing syntax where
was meant to address a parent reference by name. This got replaced with the
details="…"
syntax in 2025.