Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment--20140604160246/@comment-122657-20140616202248

Grunny wrote: Since this is the main thread, I'll post a response to another thread here as well in case other people are curious as to why references don't work on some pages that use infoboxes:

Spencerz wrote: Additionally, references used in the infoboxes still don't show up in the reference section at the bottom of the articles. However, I'm aware that we've had issues with infoboxes and references seemingly forever, so it's not earth-shattering news I took a look at the cause of this, and it's not related to our changes, it's caused by the use of DPL (specifically the use of Template:Cid in the first and last fields) in the infoboxes. I've confirmed that the exact same thing happened with the old, non-Lua version of the infobox. Basically, DPL destroys the parser, and so it restarts after it is used, meaning the references restart, which is why only the references after the infobox on these articles work and they start from 1 again.

That is a FANTASTIC find, thanks Grunny! Since the benefit of using DPL in the infobox is relatively small, we may look at removing the call in lieu of keeping the references working. I'll bring it up in another admin thread.

In the meantime, is there any new recommendations for data sharing between pages? We spoke about the issue a bit while Jamie and I were visiting, but I don't think we came up with any kind of long-term solution that meets both of our needs.