Help:Extension:Cite

The Cite extension (what we use to make references and hottips) has the ability to detect errors. This page documents the error messages and provides an understanding of the problem and solutions.

Overview
is the software extension for the footnotes system. Two HTML-style tags are used to define and show the references.

Single use footnotes are defined by enclosing content within :
 * content

A footnote used multiple times may be defined with a name:
 * content

To invoke a named footnote:
 * 

Footnotes may be defined in groups:
 * content

Names and groups may not be a numeric integer. The quotes are optional unless the name includes a space, punctuation or other mark. It is recommended that names be kept simple and restricted to the ASCII character set.

To display the reference list, after all of the  tags, include:

To display footnoted defined in a group. include:
 * 

Error messages
The messages will show as bold red.

Technical information
Internal messages are generated by the extension and shown as a MediaWiki message. See the Parser hooks section of Special:Version for the installed version of Cite.php. These messages are in the MediaWiki namespace and can be modified only by admins.