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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >
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