Topic on Talk:Citoid

It seems to happen most frequently when a large number of citations are added in a single edit.

This behaviour is undesired and confusing due to <references> generally being used for the reflist.

Could you give me a diff in which this happened?

@ESanders (WMF), I wonder if this is a recent problem.

I was just able to reproduce it with this edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Nathanielcwm/sandbox/referencestest&diff=prev&oldid=1160061664

To reproduce it I did the following:

• Copied the contents of an old revision of the Vuze page into my sandbox
• Used the citation tool to automatically generate a citation using https://torrentfreak.com/former-vuze-developers-launch-biglybt-a-new-open-source-torrent-client-170803/
• Observed that after the citation was added the text of the citation was left highlighted in my editor
• Used the citation tool again to generate a citation for https://www.neowin.net/news/former-vuze-developers-launch-new-open-source-torrent-client-without-any-ads-or-bloat/
• Observed that the citation tool wrapped the second citation in a <references> tag

This was done under Windows 11 and Firefox 114.0.1 with the modern Vector skin

I have the following non default gadgets enabled:

• Focus the cursor in the search bar on loading the Main Page
• Twinkle
• Prosesize
• find-archived-section
• Display pages on your watchlist that have changed since your last visit in bold
• HotCat
• ProveIt (not used for this edit)
• MoreMenu
• Replace the "new section" tab text with "+"
• Change UTC-based times and dates, such as those used in signatures, to be relative to local time
• Display an assessment of an article's quality in its page header
• Dark mode toggle
• Display links to disambiguation pages in orange
• Strike out usernames that have been blocked
• XTools
• Make headers of tables display as long as the table is in view, i.e. "sticky"
• Dark mode styling

And the following default gadgets disabled:

• Reference Tooltips
• refToolbar

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nathanielcwm/common.js