Template:Reflist/Transwiki guide

The following steps below detail how template {{reflist}} is implemented on the English Wikipedia. If porting an exact copy of the template {{reflist}} to other Wikimedia projects, the following needs to be copied (and modified to suit the needs of your project); other wikis outside Wikimedia projects should make sure the latest versions of the extensions Cite, ParserFunctions and TemplateStyles are installed first, and if adding the tracking category you'll also need to install Scribunto. Please use an edit summary like the text shown so the history will show where each page came from.

Create or modify the following templates and system messages

Template/System messages	Edit summary
Template:Reflist	copy from [[:en:Template:Reflist]]
Template:Reflist/styles.css	copy from [[:en:Template:Reflist/styles.css]]
MediaWiki:Cite references link many format	copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite references link many format]]
MediaWiki:Cite references link many format backlink labels	copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite references link many format backlink labels]]
MediaWiki:Cite link label group-decimal	copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite link label group-decimal]]
MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-alpha	copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-alpha]]
MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-greek	copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-greek]]
MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-roman	copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-roman]]
MediaWiki:Cite link label group-upper-alpha	copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite link label group-upper-alpha]]
MediaWiki:Cite link label group-upper-roman	copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite link label group-upper-roman]]

Tracking category

The tracking category Category:Pages using reflist with unknown parameters uses the following templates:

Template	Edit summary
Module:Check for unknown parameters	copy from [[:en:Module:Check for unknown parameters]]
Template:Main other	copy from [[:en:Template:Main other]]

Optional

To replace the default uparrow (↑) with caret (^)

Template	Edit summary
MediaWiki:Cite references link one	copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite references link one]]
MediaWiki:Cite references link many	copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite references link many]]

CSS support

Copy the following CSS to MediaWiki:Common.css. → copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Common.css]]

/* Make the list of references smaller */
ol.references {
	font-size: 90%;            /* Default font-size */
	margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}

See also

Note: Wikimedia projects that uses automatic columns for references have 'wgCiteResponsiveReferences' set to true on InitialiseSettings.php. To request that this feature be enabled at your local wiki, please file a Phabricator task by filling in this pre-formatted Phabricator task.

• Extension:Cite
• Extension:CiteThisPage
• Columns for references