*Apologies for cross-posting*

Hello. I'd like to let you know that Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical
Wishes <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes> team is
planning to deploy a new feature for sub-referencing.

For many years, community members have requested
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing/History#Where_a_solution_to_this_problem_was_requested_%E2%80%93_examples>
an easy way to re-use references with different details. Soon, there will
be a MediaWiki solution for this, and it will work in wikitext and in
Visual Editor. If you want to know more, take a look at this project page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing>.


Please note that the new feature will be *optional* – if you prefer other
ways of referencing, you can keep using them. However, you will probably
encounter sub-references in articles written by others.

To make sure that sub-referencing works well for you, we are asking for your
feedback:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing#Test>


   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing#Test>
   -
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing#Test>Please
   try
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing#Test>
   the current state of development on beta wiki and let us know what you
   think
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing>
   .
   - Sign up here
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing/Sign-up>
   to get updates and/or invitations to participate in user research
   activities.

We plan to deploy this feature to the Wikimedia wikis later this year.
Before that, we will check in with creators/maintainers of
reference-related tools and templates. And we will send more announcements
when we get closer to the deployment date. If you can already help us
spread the message on your wikis, that would be much appreciated!


For Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team,
Johanna Strodt
Community communications Technical Wishes
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