Wikimedia Bugzilla is closed!

So what is this about? There's a lot of missing context here.

Hello?

Sorry!

This refers to the hacky fix for bug 50423 which added (eventually):

  /* HACK: Hide Ref errors in templates */
  .mw-ext-cite-error {
	display: none;
  }

… to ve.ce.MWReferenceNode.css

This bug is asking for a way for these errors to not be shown that doesn't just suppress the conent (they're caused by the templates rendering out of context).

(In reply to James Forrester from comment #3)
> Sorry!
> 
> This refers to the hacky fix for bug 50423 which added (eventually):
> 
>   /* HACK: Hide Ref errors in templates */
>   .mw-ext-cite-error {
> 	display: none;
>   }
> 
> … to ve.ce.MWReferenceNode.css
> 
> This bug is asking for a way for these errors to not be shown that doesn't
> just suppress the conent (they're caused by the templates rendering out of
> context).

I guess we could send some 'nocontext' parameter in the HTTP request which would suppress errors based on missing information... Sounds like it would be even worse than the current solution though.