<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">--- On </font><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Tue, 15/3/11, Ryan Kaldari <i><rkaldari@wikimedia.org></i></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"> wrote:</font><br><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br>From: Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org><br>Subject: Re: [Gendergap] How to use Wiki videos<br>To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org<br>Date: Tuesday, 15 March, 2011, 23:20<br>A video incorporating the new RefToolbar (the thing that appears
when you click "Cite" in the editor) would be helpful in this
regard. Citation templates and citation formatting are definitely
one of the biggest barriers to truly integrating newbies into
Wikipedia editing (i.e. getting beyond doing spelling corrections).
I think that people would be a lot less intimidated if they knew
they could just paste in an ISBN number and click a button and the
citation is automatically created for them. (I remember my own
amazement at learning this.)</blockquote><div id="yiv1950819643"> </div><div id="yiv1950819643"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">Have you seen this utility? You just paste in the Google Books URL, and it creates a named,</span></div><div id="yiv1950819643"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">fully </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">formatted book reference:</span></div><div id="yiv1950819643"><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "> </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://reftag.appspot.com/?book_url=&dateformat=dmy">http://reftag.appspot.com/?book_url=&dateformat=dmy</a></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "> </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><a
href="http://reftag.appspot.com/?book_url=&dateformat=dmy"></a>It works better than the autofill in the cite book template. </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">If you were looking at a particular page in Google Books, it also inserts the page number</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">and adds a link to that page.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; ">Andreas</div></div></div></td></tr></table><br>