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511KeV (talkcontribs)

Is there any easy way to just use the references from the page we are translating from.

Pginer-WMF (talkcontribs)

Thanks for the feedback, @511KeV. References often use templates to structure their information. Unfortunately templates are defined independently on each wiki. Equivalent templates are connected through Wikidata, but a tool like Content Translation still needs to figure out which are the equivalent parameters across these templates to know where to copy the information. Content Translation tries to transfer the references and templates based on the available metadata but this is a process that is not always going to work since templates may not exits in both languages or have a very different structure or parameter names.

If there are frequent cases where the tool is not able to transfer across languages automatically, please share those and we can investigate further. The ultimate solution would be to have some global system for references and/or templates, but that would be a separate effort.

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