I added this comment to the altmetric blog article, so thought I would add it to this discussion as well... 

The 4 templates as part of the fabulous RefToolbar all have DOI, ISBN, PMID fields so.... :-)

I mention the RefToolbar because I'm not sure if folks know about it when building citations. I find it invaluable.

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Please also note there is a citation toolbar (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RefToolbar) that can be activated by registered Wikipedia users — that utilizes the following templates: cite web, cite news, cite book, cite journal.

I am obsessed with citation cleanup so I use this toolbar all the time. To activate, go to Preferences, Gadgets, Editing, select “refToolbar, adds a “cite” button to the editing toolbar for quick and easy addition of commonly used citation templates.”

It’s WONDERFUL!

Erika
 
Erika Herzog
erika_herzog@yahoo.com 

From: Raymond Leonard <raymond.f.leonard.jr@gmail.com>
To: Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker@gmail.com>
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Definitely an incentive to use those doi, prc, & pmid parameters in the {{cite web}} template!

Yours,
Peaceray

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker@gmail.com> wrote:
Dario and I just released our first static dump of identifiers.  Right now, it only includes PubMed identifiers, but I'm running an extraction right now to add DOIs.  It turns out that they are non-trivial to extract with regexes[1] alone, so I wrote an island parser to extract them from wikimarkup[2] that seems to perform very well.  

Halfaker, Aaron; Taraborelli, Dario (2015): Scholarly article citations in Wikipedia. figshare.
http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1299540
Retrieved 22:25, Feb 05, 2015 (GMT)


-Aaron

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, saw that!  Really neat.  We're working on it with Analytics :)

On 2/5/15, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI:
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> http://www.altmetric.com/blog/new-source-alert-wikipedia/
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> Pine
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> *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
>
>
>
>
>
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> *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
> our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
> must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
> which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
> fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
> know.*
>
> *—Catherine Munro*
>


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