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#ref_ in Wikipedia:Template:Note

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Schalice (talkcontribs)

I give up. What, where, how does this 'mechanism' work?

Varnent (talkcontribs)

Are you trying this on Wikipedia or a third-party MediaWiki installation? If just on Wikipedia, you may want to try that template's talk page for assistance. Generally this is a place for supporting the MediaWiki software that Wikipedia runs on.

Schalice (talkcontribs)

The mediawiki note template is different. I am somewhat new at this but am going to guess that wikipedia has some proprietary parser similar to Extension:Ref that handles #ref_ ?

Varnent (talkcontribs)

Sorry - meant the talk page on Wikipedia - my bad.  :) Try this link instead. Wikipedia does not have any proprietary software of any kind. It's all available via this website. Looking at that template, it looks like a basic link format. What are you trying to do with it? Are you trying to use the <ref> tag? If so, that relate to citations, which you can find out more about here and here.

Reach Out to the Truth (talkcontribs)

{{ref}} and {{note}} work together. {{ref}} is used in the body of your articles, and {{note}} is used in a references section.

Proper use of those templates requires you to understand how they work, and be willing to maintain them because. My advice: don't bother. I find the Cite extension to be slightly less infuriating. It is used more often on Wikipedia than the Ref and Note templates are, so that's probably what you're really looking for.

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