> From: tbayer@wikimedia.org
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:49:17 -0800
> To: education@lists.wikimedia.org
> CC: dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] cite pmid y cite doi templates
>
> We are encountering that sort of problem regularly with the Wikimedia
> Research Newsletter [1] (which is compiled on the English Wikipedia,
> where these templates are present, and then ported to Meta, where they
> are not). Until Citation bot [2] has been ported to the Spanish
> Wikipedia, or the bright future of Citoid [3] has arrived everywhere,
> you could use template expansion as a quick workaround:
>
> Simply paste the text of the citation template ("{{Cite| ...}}",
> "{{Cite doi|...}}" or such) into [4], and copy the result into the
> Spanish Wikipedia article. The result will be a bit more complicated
> in the source wikitext, but should look identical to the reader
> (example: [5]).
>
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Citation_bot
> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2015/February#Looking_ahead
> [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates
> [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:Newsletter/2014/August&diff=next&oldid=9814937
>
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter
> <osamadre@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > A number of my students are currently translating technical articles from
> > English to Spanish and we have run into a problem....
> >
> > Es.wiki does not recognize the database reference templates such as cite
> > pmid and cite doi. A student who knows something about computers looked into
> > it a bit and told me that the reason is that those templates function with a
> > bot that scrapes the reference information from the database. However, it
> > only functions in en.wiki. We either need a bot for es.wiki or the en.wiki
> > bot needs to be modified to be able to send the scraped info to other
> > languages. This student tells me he does not know how to do either.
> >
> > In two weeks we have a major editathon, with a large chunk of the
> > student/participants working on translations, preferably articles relating
> > to their majors. We are talking 250+ students on three campuses.
> >
> > Right now, we get around this problem by using the cita publicación template
> > in es.wiki but of course it would make life a lot easier if we dont have to
> > teach dozens of students or more how to do this.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > Leigh
> >
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