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Hi. Is the way to configure the backlinks by group? I mean, that for general group, the references will be 1, 2, 3 and the backlinks 1 ^ 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and for efn group the references will be a, b, c and the backlinks a ^ a.1, a.2, a.3. Now I have references a, b, c and backilnks a ^ 1.1, 1.2, 1.3. Thank you.

Can you please explain what an "efn" group is, and what you want to achieve?

It's my nickname for a group that created by enwiki template:efn. General references are a numbered list 1,2,3, when efn creates a list a,b,c. As above, I'd like to prevent backlinks a ^ 1.1, 1.2, 1.3.

I'm afraid you need to ask this question on en:Template talk:Efn then.

So, I wasn't clear. I do not talk about enwiki or template efn. As I already said, it's just a nickname, instead of sying every second "a group lower-alpha".

I'm afraid it's still not clear what you are talking about, and what you want. What do you mean when you say "nickname"? What do you mean when you say you want to "prevent backlinks"? Can you please show the code you are currently using?

The special behavior of a <ref group="lower-alpha"> only works if a page MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-alpha exists. This is not the case by default, unless you created it.

The magic of templates like efn, notelist and reflist only works together with a list-style-type: inherit override in Common.css. That's something the English Wikipedia community came up with, not something the Cite extension officially supports.

The special behavior you described already exists in our wiki, a lot of time. There is a template, named on our wiki language, let's call it templateA for this discussion, that creates lower-alpha reference, as efn in enwiki. There is another template, let's call it templateList, that creates references group=lower-alpha. As a result, I can write wiki code

text1{{templateA|name=ref25|text2}}text3{{templateA|name=ref25}}text4<ref name=ref35>text5</ref>text6<ref name=ref35/>text7
==references==
<references/>
==comments==
{{templateList}}

getting

text1[a]text3[a]text4[1]text6[1]text7
==references==
1 ^ 1.1 1.2 text5
==comments==
a ^ 1.1 1.2 text2

when I'd like to get

text1[a]text3[a]text4[1]text6[1]text7
==references==
1 ^ 1.1 1.2 text5
==comments==
a ^ a.1 a.2 text2

when the differences are in the last line only, 1.1 1.2 vs a.1 a.2.

I'm sorry, but such a degree of customization is not possible.

• It is possible to change MediaWiki:Cite references link many format in your wiki to <sup>[[#$1|$3]]</sup> to replace the default "1.0 1.1" with "a b". However, this will have an effect on all references then, not only on references created by a specific template.
• It is possible to change MediaWiki:Cite references link many format backlink labels from a b to a.1 a.2. However, the letter "a" will always be the same then.

As said, the customized "a" in your example is a hack in your Common.css and the template you are using, and not officially supported by the Cite extension.

I see. A pity. And there is no way to change "1.0 1.1 1.2" even to "0 1 2"?

Actually, if I put into MediaWiki:Cite references link many format backlink labels the text "1 2 3 4 5" ... "999 1000", it should do the trick, shouldn't it?

Yes, that should work. Note you need to do both changes I listed above.

Very well. Thanks a lot for your help and for your time.

Well, I tried, and it does not work. Maybe it takes time, as for gadgets, or I should do something more? Thanks.

Thiemo Kreuz? Thank you.

Please, somebody, help. Thank you.

You are not providing any new information. So I don't know to what I should respond to. I believe I already explained all I know in my posts above.

"Well, I tried, and it does not work" is the information. So I've asked if I should do more steps. For example, create another page, or turn on some extension.

I tried this locally again. I edited MediaWiki:Cite references link many format and changed <sup>[[#$1|$2]]</sup> to <sup>[[#$1|$3]]</sup>. I edited MediaWiki:Cite references link many format backlink labels and changed it to contain 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 and so on. References that are used more than one time are now shown as "^ 0 1" in the references section at the bottom of the page.

This does not change how the footnote markers in the text are rendered.

Well, found the problem. And I do not like the answer. Every page in Wikipedia should be purged to start this working on it.