Footnotes in Mediawiki

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First, enable citations.

Basics

The basic footnote is made with a pair of of ref and references tags. The first is placed where you want to add a footnote, like:

Some text.<ref group="notes">A footnote.</ref>

This will render as "Some text." followed by a superscript counter with the word "notes" after it. Then using:

<references group="notes">

where you want the footnotes to actually be printed--usually the bottom of the page.

Notice that I specify group="notes" in both the ref and references tags. You can use the group attribute to create different sets. I tend to name all my references so their intent is clear ("notes", "biblio", etc.). It will work without a name, however, and references with no names should and generally will be assumed to be bibliography style references.

Multiple References

One nice features of the Cite extension is the ability to point multiple references to the same note. You accomplish this by naming the references:

Some text.<ref group="notes" name="the ref">Common reference text.</ref>
...
Some more text.<ref group="notes" name="the ref" /<

Clicking on the inline citation will take the reader to the same footnote.