--- On Tue, 15/3/11, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:

From: Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] How to use Wiki videos
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Tuesday, 15 March, 2011, 23:20
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.)

Have you seen this utility? You just paste in the Google Books URL, and it creates a named,

fully formatted book reference:

http://reftag.appspot.com/?book_url=&dateformat=dmy

It works better than the autofill in the cite book template.

If you were looking at a particular page in Google Books, it also inserts the page number

and adds a link to that page.

Andreas