http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2011/01/04/what-you-see-is-for-the-win/commen...
Someone suggested this on my blog. It's an *excellent* idea and needs a button added for it in the present Vector editor.
Jen says: Wednesday 5th January, 2011 at 10:28 pm (Edit)
Re John Broughton’s idea for “a **single click** way of generating the standard text/code for a footnote”…
Would there be any way to make a nice little bookmarklet so people could drag a URL onto the button, and it would copy a wiki-citation to the clipboard?
- d.
On 5 January 2011 22:36, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2011/01/04/what-you-see-is-for-the-win/commen...
Someone suggested this on my blog. It's an *excellent* idea and needs a button added for it in the present Vector editor.
Jen says: Wednesday 5th January, 2011 at 10:28 pm (Edit)
Re John Broughton’s idea for “a **single click** way of generating the standard text/code for a footnote”…
Would there be any way to make a nice little bookmarklet so people could drag a URL onto the button, and it would copy a wiki-citation to the clipboard?
Basically no
If you look at even [[Template:Cite web]] it requires stuff that you have to go hunting for (author).
You could construct something for popular websites (BBC say) which have a standard format.
Related project by Mozilla and some other developers, including from Creative Commons:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Attribution_generator
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Attribution_generatorSteven
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:40 PM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 January 2011 22:36, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2011/01/04/what-you-see-is-for-the-win/commen...
Someone suggested this on my blog. It's an *excellent* idea and needs a button added for it in the present Vector editor.
Jen says: Wednesday 5th January, 2011 at 10:28 pm (Edit)
Re John Broughton’s idea for “a **single click** way of generating the standard text/code for a footnote”…
Would there be any way to make a nice little bookmarklet so people could drag a URL onto the button, and it would copy a wiki-citation to the clipboard?
Basically no
If you look at even [[Template:Cite web]] it requires stuff that you have to go hunting for (author).
You could construct something for popular websites (BBC say) which have a standard format.
-- geni
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On 5 January 2011 22:40, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Basically no If you look at even [[Template:Cite web]] it requires stuff that you have to go hunting for (author). You could construct something for popular websites (BBC say) which have a standard format.
Sounds like something we could add really quite a lot of special cases to. I wonder how many we would need to have decent coverage in practice. Has anyone done a survey of what sources we actually use in references? The long tail will be *huge*, but does the en:wp community have any favourites?
- d.
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:44 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 January 2011 22:40, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Basically no If you look at even [[Template:Cite web]] it requires stuff that you have to go hunting for (author). You could construct something for popular websites (BBC say) which have a standard format.
Sounds like something we could add really quite a lot of special cases to. I wonder how many we would need to have decent coverage in practice. Has anyone done a survey of what sources we actually use in references? The long tail will be *huge*, but does the en:wp community have any favourites?
- d.
I have created a tool called WikiPapers that my lab has used for several years that does something similar to this. It is designed around scientific papers. It allows you to highlight the title of an article on any web page and then click it a bookmarklet and it will use various APIs on the web to get the associated metadata and add it to your wiki. It can optionally pass the URL to one of many URL scrapers such as Connotea and CiteULike. I am currently refactoring the code for use in a new project called WikiScholar. The old code supports PubMed, Google Scholar, Connotea and CiteULike, whereas the new code only supports PubMed right now. The new code, however, makes it much simpler to add new importers with its class-based infrastructure.
If anyone is interested in this project and can code in Python or PHP please let me know. I am actively developing it now. I'm interested in folks who would like to dedicate some time to writing importers for specific APIs.
Cheers, Brian
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:44 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 January 2011 22:40, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Basically no If you look at even [[Template:Cite web]] it requires stuff that you have to go hunting for (author). You could construct something for popular websites (BBC say) which have a standard format.
Sounds like something we could add really quite a lot of special cases to. I wonder how many we would need to have decent coverage in practice. Has anyone done a survey of what sources we actually use in references? The long tail will be *huge*, but does the en:wp community have any favourites?
- d.
I have created a tool called WikiPapers that my lab has used for several years that does something similar to this. It is designed around scientific papers. It allows you to highlight the title of an article on any web page and then click it a bookmarklet and it will use various APIs on the web to get the associated metadata and add it to your wiki. It can optionally pass the URL to one of many URL scrapers such as Connotea and CiteULike. I am currently refactoring the code for use in a new project called WikiScholar. The old code supports PubMed, Google Scholar, Connotea and CiteULike, whereas the new code only supports PubMed right now. The new code, however, makes it much simpler to add new importers with its class-based infrastructure.
If anyone is interested in this project and can code in Python or PHP please let me know. I am actively developing it now. I'm interested in folks who would like to dedicate some time to writing importers for specific APIs.
Cheers, Brian
PS: The Google Code url is: http://code.google.com/p/wikipapers/
On 5 January 2011 22:51, Brian J Mingus brian.mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
I have created a tool called WikiPapers that my lab has used for several
PS: The Google Code url is: http://code.google.com/p/wikipapers/
If you can get it in fit condition that you would let the wikitech-l conspiracy at it, I urge you to do so.
- d.
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:36 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2011/01/04/what-you-see-is-for-the-win/commen...
Someone suggested this on my blog. It's an *excellent* idea and needs a button added for it in the present Vector editor.
Jen says: Wednesday 5th January, 2011 at 10:28 pm (Edit)
Re John Broughton’s idea for “a **single click** way of generating the standard text/code for a footnote”…
Would there be any way to make a nice little bookmarklet so people could drag a URL onto the button, and it would copy a wiki-citation to the clipboard?
- d.
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Are you aware of the Firefox tool Cite4Wiki? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/62583/
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:36 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2011/01/04/what-you-see-is-for-the-win/commen...
Someone suggested this on my blog. It's an *excellent* idea and needs a button added for it in the present Vector editor.
Jen says: Wednesday 5th January, 2011 at 10:28 pm (Edit)
Re John Broughton’s idea for “a **single click** way of generating the standard text/code for a footnote”…
Would there be any way to make a nice little bookmarklet so people could drag a URL onto the button, and it would copy a wiki-citation to the clipboard?
Bookmarklet at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bazzargh/citemark has existed for a few years. It's not very polished (it just adds everything it can find, metadatawise), but I use it regularly to get the bulk of the needed field values. It also hasn't been updated since it was written in Feb '08, so could probably benefit from some additional programmer-eyeballs. I originally found it via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_tools
Hope that helps.
Quiddity.