Thread:Lunarity/@comment-4623180-20121113084819/@comment-5209426-20121130053433

I'm not sure if that's an ideal use or not, but the bigger problem is that the script only processes stuff which exists when the page is loaded.

That footer is loaded after the page so the popup code has already run and not found anything which is why it doesn't work. Correcting that will require modifications ReferencePopups and MediaWiki:Footer.js. I'll have a look.