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use Project template
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some examples
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{{Project|status=(in progress)|url=https://gitlab.com/wmde/technical-wishes/scrape-wiki-html-dump}}
{{Project|status=(in progress)|url=https://gitlab.com/wmde/technical-wishes/scrape-wiki-html-dump}}
=== What are references? ===
References are the little footnotes all over Wikipedia articles.<ref>Like this one.</ref>  Citations are used to ground the writing in sources, which are especially important on Wikipedia because of the rule against so-called "original research".  Everything needs to be paraphrased from existing secondary sources.
A raw reference looks like <code><nowiki><ref>This footnote.</ref></nowiki></code>.  But most references are fancier, and rely on reusable structures called templates.  They get long, but let's take a simple example <code><nowiki>{{sfn|Burgess|2011|p=290}}</nowiki></code>
=== Challenges of wikitext ===