Hello, If you sometimes edit citation-heavy pages on Meta-Wiki (for example when you document your projects in the Research: namespace), you might be interested in knowing that you can now automatically format your citations with Citoid.
Citoid is a tool based on Zotero and integrated with the visual editor on Wikimedia wikis. It allows you to automatically retrieve metadata about a citation using its DOI or URI, and automatically format and insert that information using the standard citation templates from Wikipedia. Citoid has been in use on several Wikipedia wikis for a while, but it wasn't set up to work on Meta. Given that Meta hosts a lot of research documentation, I decided to configure it as well (mostly for my own convenience, but it benefits everyone :) You can refer to Wikipedia's user guide to see screenshots of Citoid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User_guide#Using_Citoid (To learn more about Citoid itself and how it works behind the scenes, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid ) Citoid works with the visual editor, which you can enable in your user preferences if you haven't already. In your beta options: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures click on "Visual editing" and then save your preferences. If you have an account on Meta and have enabled visual editing, you can test Citoid in your personal sandbox: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/sandbox In the visual editor, click the "Cite" button in the toolbar. Try to add, for example: * http://abs.sagepub.com/content/57/5/664 * 10.2139/ssrn.2021326 * http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262016575 and watch as they become complete citations, fully formatted with the appropriate templates. I have also taken this opportunity to update the main citation templates on Meta (cite journal, cite book, etc.) with their most recent version from the English Wikipedia, using the latest Lua modules. I haven't imported all of Wikipedia's citation templates, only the most common. Feel free to reach out to me off-list and/or on-wiki if you want me to import another one. As always, feel free to drop by in the #wikimedia-research channel on Freenode IRC if you notice a problem. (And you're welcome to stay once you get there! We're a welcoming bunch.) (As a side note, if there is someone familiar with Semantic MediaWiki around, I'd love to see if we can couple it with Citoid, in order to match their fields. This would make it much easier to add new entries to WikiPapers, simply by entering their DOI/URI.) -- Guillaume Paumier Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
