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

[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 year of publication based on the ISBN.
>

Possibly, but not from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Gadgets are, by design, community-written and community-supported. The
English Wikipedia community has a large number of technical experts who
might help out in improving, or replacing, that gadget for the 2010-era
wikitext editor. Most other wikis have no internal technical support; it's
important that we ensure that we give help to those communities.

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

[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 
wrote:

> 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 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 for which we've had the most praise is the
> tool
> > to generate citations. This tool, started back in 2014, allows you to
> type
> > in a URL, DOI, or PMCID and have it suggest a filled-in citation. Making
> it
> > quicker and easier for new and existing editors alike to do the right
> thing
> > is a key part of our work.
> >
> > However, Wikimedians love our books, and the most-requested feature was
> to
> > add to this the most common identifier for books, ISBNs. I know that a
> few
> > wikis built their own custom gadgets to do this, but I felt that we
> should
> > provide a proper, reliable tool that works on mobile as well as desktop
> > platforms, for all users and in all languages.
> >
> > Over the past while, we agreed a partnership with OCLC to provide this
> data
> > for editors to use, to make referencing stronger and clearer for our
> > readers around the world. Identifiers for books will help them find
> further
> > information on topics that catch their interest, using our long-standing
> > BookSources tool and OCLC's WorldCat database.
> >
> > This is now live on all wikis which have Citoid set up. If your wiki
> > doesn't have it, we'd love to help your community out – ask on the talk
> > page
> >  >.
> > You can read more in the blog post
> > , and
> > of
> > course I'd love for you to try it out on a wiki that's configured with it
> > near you.
> >
> > My very big thanks to OCLC, in particularly Merrilee Proffitt, and to my
> > colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, particularly Marielle Volz, Marko
> > Obrovac, and Jake Orlowitz, for making this possible.
> >
> > Yours,
> > --
> >
> > James D. Forrester
> > Lead Product Manager, Editing
> > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> > jforrester at wikimedia.org
> >  |
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Automatic citation lookup now supports ISBNs, thanks to OCLC

[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 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 for which we've had the most praise is the tool
> to generate citations. This tool, started back in 2014, allows you to type
> in a URL, DOI, or PMCID and have it suggest a filled-in citation. Making it
> quicker and easier for new and existing editors alike to do the right thing
> is a key part of our work.
>
> However, Wikimedians love our books, and the most-requested feature was to
> add to this the most common identifier for books, ISBNs. I know that a few
> wikis built their own custom gadgets to do this, but I felt that we should
> provide a proper, reliable tool that works on mobile as well as desktop
> platforms, for all users and in all languages.
>
> Over the past while, we agreed a partnership with OCLC to provide this data
> for editors to use, to make referencing stronger and clearer for our
> readers around the world. Identifiers for books will help them find further
> information on topics that catch their interest, using our long-standing
> BookSources tool and OCLC's WorldCat database.
>
> This is now live on all wikis which have Citoid set up. If your wiki
> doesn't have it, we'd love to help your community out – ask on the talk
> page
> .
> You can read more in the blog post
> , and
> of
> course I'd love for you to try it out on a wiki that's configured with it
> near you.
>
> My very big thanks to OCLC, in particularly Merrilee Proffitt, and to my
> colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, particularly Marielle Volz, Marko
> Obrovac, and Jake Orlowitz, for making this possible.
>
> Yours,
> --
>
> James D. Forrester
> Lead Product Manager, Editing
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> jforrester at wikimedia.org
>  |
> @jdforrester
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[Wikimedia-l] Automatic citation lookup now supports ISBNs, thanks to OCLC

[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 for which we've had the most praise is the tool
to generate citations. This tool, started back in 2014, allows you to type
in a URL, DOI, or PMCID and have it suggest a filled-in citation. Making it
quicker and easier for new and existing editors alike to do the right thing
is a key part of our work.

However, Wikimedians love our books, and the most-requested feature was to
add to this the most common identifier for books, ISBNs. I know that a few
wikis built their own custom gadgets to do this, but I felt that we should
provide a proper, reliable tool that works on mobile as well as desktop
platforms, for all users and in all languages.

Over the past while, we agreed a partnership with OCLC to provide this data
for editors to use, to make referencing stronger and clearer for our
readers around the world. Identifiers for books will help them find further
information on topics that catch their interest, using our long-standing
BookSources tool and OCLC's WorldCat database.

This is now live on all wikis which have Citoid set up. If your wiki
doesn't have it, we'd love to help your community out – ask on the talk page
.
You can read more in the blog post
, and of
course I'd love for you to try it out on a wiki that's configured with it
near you.

My very big thanks to OCLC, in particularly Merrilee Proffitt, and to my
colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, particularly Marielle Volz, Marko
Obrovac, and Jake Orlowitz, for making this possible.

Yours,
-- 

James D. Forrester
Lead Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester at wikimedia.org
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