Some locals/communities would prefer backlinks with numbers (1.1, 1.2), some prefer with lower alpha (1.a, 1.b), roman, greek and many others.
It seems like numbers (1.1, 1.2) is the right default for English and in general (as language agnostic).
The 2 reasons I would like to address it now:
- There is a TODO in ext cite to remove the lower alpha from the extension and move it to enwiki CSS. Snippet from code:
/* Temporary: This is enwiki specific. * Need this for b/c till we add this to enwiki's Mediawiki:Common.css */
- It badly affect other locals - for instance Hebrew Wikipedia loads and English style, although Hebrew is non latin language. Snippet from code why it happens:
// Get the content language code, and all the fallbacks. The first that // has a ext.cite.style.<lang code>.css file present will be used.
I decided it is better to fix it from the root rather than hacking a specific Hebrew workaround.
Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):
- Open any page for editing in Visual Editor
- Add a reference twice (so it will have 2 backlinks)
What happens?:
- it shows 1.a and 2.b
What should have happened instead?:
Should show 1.1 and 1.2
Software version (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
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