Wonderful, thanks Guillaume.
On Oct 20, 2015 3:35 PM, "Guillaume Paumier" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
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