Re: [Wikimedia-l] Automatic citation lookup now supports ISBNs, thanks to OCLC

2017-05-11 Thread James Forrester
On Thu, 11 May 2017 at 14:32 James Heilman wrote: > Excellent to see. Absolutely. > This complements nicely the RefToolbar on EN WP. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RefToolbar > > Will this lead to improvements in that tool? RefToolbar has trouble pulling > the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Automatic citation lookup now supports ISBNs, thanks to OCLC

2017-05-11 Thread James Heilman
Excellent to see. This complements nicely the RefToolbar on EN WP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RefToolbar Will this lead to improvements in that tool? RefToolbar has trouble pulling the year of publication based on the ISBN. Best J On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Andy Cruz y Corro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Automatic citation lookup now supports ISBNs, thanks to OCLC

2017-05-11 Thread Andy Cruz y Corro
Does this mean I won't have to be relying on Yadkard so much? Hooray! On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:41 PM, James Forrester wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm delighted to announce here that you can now use ISBNs to add > automatically-generated citations to Wikipedia. This is

[Wikimedia-l] Automatic citation lookup now supports ISBNs, thanks to OCLC

2017-05-11 Thread James Forrester
Hey all, I'm delighted to announce here that you can now use ISBNs to add automatically-generated citations to Wikipedia. This is thanks to a partnership with OCLC, a global non-profit library cooperative, whose WorldCat database of books is the largest in the world. One of the editing features