Thanks Tilman. The expand template tool is certainly easier than looking for the citation information back in the original English article.
> From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:49:17 -0800 > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] cite pmid y cite doi templates > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Education mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > > > > > -- > Tilman Bayer > Senior Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > IRC (Freenode): HaeB > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
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