Thanks Tilman. The expand template tool is certainly easier than looking for the citation
information back in the original English article.
From: tbayer(a)wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:49:17 -0800
To: education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
CC: dtaraborelli(a)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#Looki…
[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:Newsletter/2014/Augus…
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter
<osamadre(a)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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