Last modified: 2014-10-08 15:18:13 UTC
On the French Wikipedia any number which identifies a given reference, say 1, is not meant to appear in brackets. When VEditing any page instead (try https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_aux_Oreilles for example) it does become [1], and then it's back to plain 1 once the page is saved. So VE is not being much WYSIWYG here. Can/should this be fixed? Thanks!
This is because the message <Cite reference link> is customised on frwiki to remove the square brackets that are there by default - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Cite_reference_link - and Parsoid is re-creating the appearance of these rather than re-using the message. Or possibly we could make this rendering be done using CSS rather than a message, which could be used by both, and is a cleaner approach.
We already style auto-numbered external links with CSS, and should be able to use the same technique for citations as well.
*** Bug 66338 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
See also bug #49538.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 43235 ***