'''Citation needed'''<ref>This wiki doesn't even have the {{Citation needed}} template! One more example of the need for Global templates</ref>
What methods do people use to turn their MediaWiki instances into actual useful software?
It's great that the open source community - both developers and editors - has been hacking away at Citations as a feature for years (e.g. [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Results/Citations 2021 Wishlist Survey results for Citations] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Results/Citations 2022] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Results/Citations 2023] and an entire conference series called "WikiCite" eg. WikiCite 2020 presentation "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCJbbvjXtkg The frontend of WikiCite]" {{#ev:youtube|gCJbbvjXtkg}}).
There has also been a years-long initiative to create "'''Global templates'''"
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Global_templates
* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Global_templates/Taxonomy
[https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/4256/ Workboard for a "Cite Extends"] or so-called "book referencing" from German Wikipedia community https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Technische_W%C3%BCnsche/Topw%C3%BCnsche/Erweiterung_der_Einzelnachweise
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/4256/
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