Template:Reflist/Transwiki guide

The following steps below is how template {{reflist}} is implemented on English Wikipedia. If porting the exact copy of template {{reflist}} to other Wikimedia projects the following need to be copied (and modified to suit the needs of your project), other wikis outside Wikimedia projects makes sure the latest versions of extensions Cite and ParserFunctions are installed first and if adding the tracking category you'll also need to install Scribunto. Please use an edit summary like the text shown so the history will show where each page came from.

Create or modify the following templates and system messages

Template/System messages	Edit summary
Template:Reflist	`copy from [[:en:Template:Reflist]]`
Template:Reflist/styles.css	`copy from [[:en:Template:Reflist/styles.css]]`
MediaWiki:Cite references link many format	`copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite references link many format]]`
MediaWiki:Cite references link many format backlink labels	`copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite references link many format backlink labels]]`
MediaWiki:Cite link label group-decimal	`copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite link label group-decimal]]`
MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-alpha	`copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-alpha]]`
MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-greek	`copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-greek]]`
MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-roman	`copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite link label group-lower-roman]]`
MediaWiki:Cite link label group-upper-alpha	`copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite link label group-upper-alpha]]`
MediaWiki:Cite link label group-upper-roman	`copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite link label group-upper-roman]]`

Tracking category

The tracking category Category:Pages using reflist with unknown parameters uses the following templates:

Template	Edit summary
Module:Check for unknown parameters	`copy from [[:en:Module:Check for unknown parameters]]`
Template:Main other	`copy from [[:en:Template:Main other]]`

Optional

To replace the default uparrow (↑) with caret (^)

Template	Edit summary
MediaWiki:Cite references link one	`copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite references link one]]`
MediaWiki:Cite references link many	`copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Cite references link many]]`

CSS support

Copy the following CSS to MediaWiki:Common.css. → copy from [[:en:MediaWiki:Common.css]]

/* Make the list of references smaller */
ol.references {
	font-size: 90%;            /* Default font-size */
	margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}

Create or modify the following templates and system messages

Tracking category

Optional

CSS support

See also