Help:Reference Previews

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The Reference Previews feature shows a preview of a footnote when you hover over its footnote marker. This feature is part of the MediaWiki extension extpopups>Extension:Popups|Popups, which is used for pagepreviews>Page_Previews|Page Previews. It's currently a beta feature.

Background
The Reference Previews feature aims to fulfill a wish from the German-speaking community's Technical Wishlist and is developed by WMDE's Tech team, with support from the WMF’s Reading Web team. The design for this feature is being developed by the WMF.

More information can be found on the RefPreviews>m:WMDE Technical Wishes/ReferencePreviews|main project page on Meta.

Activate the feature
Reference Previews will first be available as a beta feature. In order to use it, you have to
 * be logged in and tick the checkbox for "Reference Previews" in your setBeta>Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures|beta feature settings,
 * setGadgets>Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets|disable [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups Navigation Popups ] (otherwise, Reference Previews won't show),
 * disable the RefTooltips>Reference_Tooltips|Reference Tooltips gadget (recommended, because otherwise two pop-ups will appear).

Look and behavior


Scope of the very first version of this feature:
 * The pop-up opens when you hover over or when you click on a footnote marker.
 * It gives a preview of the footnote as it is shown at the bottom of the page. Inside the preview, all kinds of footnote content (text, images, tables, …) can be displayed.
 * Reference Previews look like pagepreviews>Page_Previews|Page Previews. This way, all pop-ups have the same design, no matter if you hover over a page link or a footnote marker.
 * At the top of the pop-up, the reference type is shown (more info below).
 * For short footnotes, the pop-up window adjusts to a smaller size. If the footnote size exceeds the maximum pop-up size, you can scroll to read the whole footnote.
 * Clicking on the link "Jump to reference" brings you to the actual footnote in the footnote section.
 * Links that are part of a footnote open in a new tab.
 * After the beta phase, a settings cog will take you to your user settings for this feature.

JavaScript [ edit ]
The preview uses JavaScript. If you don't have JavaScript activated, you'll get the current view: Footnote markers are jump marks and there's no preview.

Deployment roadmap [ edit ]

 * ✅ test.wikipedia.org : 2019-02-28
 * beta feature on :
 * ✅ German Wikipedia: 2019-04-04
 * ✅ Arabic Wikipedia: 2019-04-04
 * all wikis that use the Popups extension (all Wikipedias & en, he and zh Wikivoyages): 2019-10-24

Links

 * extension manual on MediaWiki.org

Reference Previews
 * project board on Phabricator
 * main project page on Meta
 * central feedback page on MediaWiki.org

Page Previews
 * main project page on MediaWiki.org
 * central feedback page on MediaWiki.org

Help with translation
The software messages for this feature can be translated on translate wiki. Any help is much appreciated!