Topic on Talk:Reference Tooltips

Interesting idea. I've made a sort-of working version at User:Yair rand/ReferenceTooltips.

A few points:

• In cases where the reference is very close to the reference section (both on the screen at the same time), duplicating the reference content in the tooltip probably isn't the best option. Maybe just give the reference the "targeted" color, or otherwise draw attention to it?
• This could get very annoying when users are just using their mouse to read through the text quickly, and the tooltips keep popping up...

Would it be a okay if I just went ahead and proposed that Reference Tooltips be enabled (maybe first as just a gadget) on a Wikipedia, or would I be messing up some kind of official WMF process that ends in a much better version of RT being added straight into Mediawiki (or something like that)?

Go right ahead. It's not an official project; just something I threw together one day.

Reference Tooltips is now available as a gadget on the English Wikipedia. :)

And also on the Serbian Wikipedia.

And now on Polish Wikipedia too. (As well as on Catalan, I think.)

...and Portuguese.

Count the Bulgarian one in as well. ;)