My guess about how to go about doing that would be to write up the documentation for how to use the relevant parts of the API for this specific purpose. I think it would not be possible to give a solution that worked for everyone because each external website would have a different database structure that would need to be mapped to. Nevertheless I'm sure that as long as we make it perfectly clear what needs to be done, the 3rd party website's admins will know how to make that happen. I also assume that it would need to be different kinds of formatting for different language editions to make it work with the local template parameters.
Not being a techie though, I've no idea if the kind of documentation is really hard to produce or is really simple. Nevertheless I strongly suspect that it would be easier/faster/cheaper to do that than to introduce major usability improvements to the citation system on Wikipedia(s). -Liam wittylama.com/blog Peace, love & metadata On 3 November 2011 07:57, David Richfield <[email protected]> wrote: > [Suggestion to encourage other website to generate pastable citation code] > > I like it a lot! How do we go about promoting this idea? > > David > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
