Hello to the community members;
I have googled:
Cite RTL MediaWiki
In the first page I only found several Support Desk posts I myself created;
Such as this one which I mistakenly suggested to mark as solved (and it was) because the following proves it wasn't really solved:
Is there a formal guide recommending how to use Cite for RTL projects?
Especially in a Lua/Scribunto-free way (no Lua, no Scribunto, no non core programming language and not anything like that - just templates).
I went after pages two and three associated with the same search keyword and didn't find anything as well; just similar posts with one or two replies which doesn't feature any template (let along template and explanation).
@Amire80 perhaps you had the honor to take part in some book writing which includes a chapter about this?
I will gladly buy this book from Amazon/Ebay/You name it.
No, I didn't write a book about it. I hope that a book about it is not needed :)
In practice, the most detailed page I know about this is probably the footnotes guide in the Hebrew Wikipedia, and something tells me that you can read Hebrew: ויקיפדיה:הערות שוליים
It's not the best and the most comprehensive page, and there probably should be a page about it in English, that would be translatable to Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Pashto, etc., but I'm not aware of such a page that already exists. Perhaps I should do it Some Day™.
Amire80, I share your hope that such a book isn't needed.
I have just read:
ויקיפדיה:הערות שולייםעזרה:הערת שוליים - מדריך מקוצרתבנית:הערהIn either have I found any reminding of the terms Cite, RTL or Lua.
I humbly admit that I am surprised that no RTL documentation is available in 2020 in English, allegedly anywhere.
I hope for more RTL content from the gentlewomen and gentlemen developing multilingual support in WikiMedia foundation.
Well, the title of bug #1 in the MediaWiki bug tracker is "Documentation is out of date, incomplete", and it's not really resolved. There are exceptions to this rule, but unfortunately the MediaWiki world often operates in the "make it work and then forget about it" mode and not in the "engineer and document it properly" mode. I'm guilty of it myself.