We are encountering that sort of problem regularly with the Wikimedia
Research Newsletter [1] (which is compiled on the English Wikipedia,
where these templates are present, and then ported to Meta, where they
are not). Until Citation bot [2] has been ported to the Spanish
Wikipedia, or the bright future of Citoid [3] has arrived everywhere,
you could use template expansion as a quick workaround:
Simply paste the text of the citation template ("{{Cite| ...}}",
"{{Cite doi|...}}" or such) into [4], and copy the result into the
Spanish Wikipedia article. The result will be a bit more complicated
in the source wikitext, but should look identical to the reader
(example: [5]).
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Citation_bot
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2015/February#Looking_ahead
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:Newsletter/2014/August&diff=next&oldid=9814937
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> A number of my students are currently translating technical articles from
> English to Spanish and we have run into a problem....
>
> Es.wiki does not recognize the database reference templates such as cite
> pmid and cite doi. A student who knows something about computers looked into
> it a bit and told me that the reason is that those templates function with a
> bot that scrapes the reference information from the database. However, it
> only functions in en.wiki. We either need a bot for es.wiki or the en.wiki
> bot needs to be modified to be able to send the scraped info to other
> languages. This student tells me he does not know how to do either.
>
> In two weeks we have a major editathon, with a large chunk of the
> student/participants working on translations, preferably articles relating
> to their majors. We are talking 250+ students on three campuses.
>
> Right now, we get around this problem by using the cita publicación template
> in es.wiki but of course it would make life a lot easier if we dont have to
> teach dozens of students or more how to do this.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Leigh
>
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