Can @Whatamidoing (WMF) or @Trizek (WMF) figure out what to do with this page? Thanks!
Topic on Help talk:VisualEditor/User guide/Citations
I think that the answer to your question is "apparently, not any time soon". ;-)
The translation extension copes poorly with modular components, and there are four different setups for citations in VisualEditor across WMF wikis. I've not found a graceful solution.