Have you set up the required template on your wiki? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book
Useful links:
Wikipedia help menu - Templates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template
Wikipedia help menu - citation templates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_templates
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of B. M. Whealton Sent: Monday, 13 September 2010 1:31 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Cite Books
Hello all, I added the Cite extension. However, on wikipedia there are ways that you can use formatting that tells it to cite a book or cite webpage. For example, I can start with <ref>{{cite book | last1 = Whealton | first1 = Bruce | title = test | editors = smith, mary; jones, jean; smith, sam | publisher = Publisher | date = 2010 | pages = 100 | accessdate = 2010-09-13}}</ref> Doing that on my wiki shows that it doesn't recognize the cite book and the {}. How is this accomplished? Thanks, Bruce