Hey all,
I'm delighted to announce here that you can now use ISBNs to add automatically-generated citations to Wikipedia. This is thanks to a partnership with OCLC, a global non-profit library cooperative, whose WorldCat database of books is the largest in the world.
One of the editing features for which we've had the most praise is the tool to generate citations. This tool, started back in 2014, allows you to type in a URL, DOI, or PMCID and have it suggest a filled-in citation. Making it quicker and easier for new and existing editors alike to do the right thing is a key part of our work.
However, Wikimedians love our books, and the most-requested feature was to add to this the most common identifier for books, ISBNs. I know that a few wikis built their own custom gadgets to do this, but I felt that we should provide a proper, reliable tool that works on mobile as well as desktop platforms, for all users and in all languages.
Over the past while, we agreed a partnership with OCLC to provide this data for editors to use, to make referencing stronger and clearer for our readers around the world. Identifiers for books will help them find further information on topics that catch their interest, using our long-standing BookSources tool and OCLC's WorldCat database.
This is now live on all wikis which have Citoid set up. If your wiki doesn't have it, we'd love to help your community out – ask on the talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki. You can read more in the blog post https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/11/wikimedia-oclc-partnership/, and of course I'd love for you to try it out on a wiki that's configured with it near you.
My very big thanks to OCLC, in particularly Merrilee Proffitt, and to my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, particularly Marielle Volz, Marko Obrovac, and Jake Orlowitz, for making this possible.
Yours,
Does this mean I won't have to be relying on Yadkard so much? Hooray!
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:41 PM, James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey all,
I'm delighted to announce here that you can now use ISBNs to add automatically-generated citations to Wikipedia. This is thanks to a partnership with OCLC, a global non-profit library cooperative, whose WorldCat database of books is the largest in the world.
One of the editing features for which we've had the most praise is the tool to generate citations. This tool, started back in 2014, allows you to type in a URL, DOI, or PMCID and have it suggest a filled-in citation. Making it quicker and easier for new and existing editors alike to do the right thing is a key part of our work.
However, Wikimedians love our books, and the most-requested feature was to add to this the most common identifier for books, ISBNs. I know that a few wikis built their own custom gadgets to do this, but I felt that we should provide a proper, reliable tool that works on mobile as well as desktop platforms, for all users and in all languages.
Over the past while, we agreed a partnership with OCLC to provide this data for editors to use, to make referencing stronger and clearer for our readers around the world. Identifiers for books will help them find further information on topics that catch their interest, using our long-standing BookSources tool and OCLC's WorldCat database.
This is now live on all wikis which have Citoid set up. If your wiki doesn't have it, we'd love to help your community out – ask on the talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki. You can read more in the blog post https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/11/wikimedia-oclc-partnership/, and of course I'd love for you to try it out on a wiki that's configured with it near you.
My very big thanks to OCLC, in particularly Merrilee Proffitt, and to my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, particularly Marielle Volz, Marko Obrovac, and Jake Orlowitz, for making this possible.
Yours,
James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester at wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Excellent to see. This complements nicely the RefToolbar on EN WP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RefToolbar
Will this lead to improvements in that tool? RefToolbar has trouble pulling the year of publication based on the ISBN.
Best J
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Andy Cruz y Corro andycyca@gmail.com wrote:
Does this mean I won't have to be relying on Yadkard so much? Hooray!
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:41 PM, James Forrester <jforrester@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Hey all,
I'm delighted to announce here that you can now use ISBNs to add automatically-generated citations to Wikipedia. This is thanks to a partnership with OCLC, a global non-profit library cooperative, whose WorldCat database of books is the largest in the world.
One of the editing features for which we've had the most praise is the
tool
to generate citations. This tool, started back in 2014, allows you to
type
in a URL, DOI, or PMCID and have it suggest a filled-in citation. Making
it
quicker and easier for new and existing editors alike to do the right
thing
is a key part of our work.
However, Wikimedians love our books, and the most-requested feature was
to
add to this the most common identifier for books, ISBNs. I know that a
few
wikis built their own custom gadgets to do this, but I felt that we
should
provide a proper, reliable tool that works on mobile as well as desktop platforms, for all users and in all languages.
Over the past while, we agreed a partnership with OCLC to provide this
data
for editors to use, to make referencing stronger and clearer for our readers around the world. Identifiers for books will help them find
further
information on topics that catch their interest, using our long-standing BookSources tool and OCLC's WorldCat database.
This is now live on all wikis which have Citoid set up. If your wiki doesn't have it, we'd love to help your community out – ask on the talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki . You can read more in the blog post https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/11/wikimedia-oclc-partnership/, and of course I'd love for you to try it out on a wiki that's configured with it near you.
My very big thanks to OCLC, in particularly Merrilee Proffitt, and to my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, particularly Marielle Volz, Marko Obrovac, and Jake Orlowitz, for making this possible.
Yours,
James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester at wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
-- https://about.me/andycyca?promo=email_sig&utm_source= product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api Andrés C y C about.me/andycyca https://about.me/andycyca?promo=email_sig&utm_source= product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
On Thu, 11 May 2017 at 14:32 James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Excellent to see.
Absolutely.
This complements nicely the RefToolbar on EN WP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RefToolbar
Will this lead to improvements in that tool? RefToolbar has trouble pulling the year of publication based on the ISBN.
Possibly, but not from the Wikimedia Foundation.
Gadgets are, by design, community-written and community-supported. The English Wikipedia community has a large number of technical experts who might help out in improving, or replacing, that gadget for the 2010-era wikitext editor. Most other wikis have no internal technical support; it's important that we ensure that we give help to those communities.
J.
Making gadgets working better globally got 1st place on the 2016 community wishlist done by the community tech team.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
So many of us within the movement also agree helping communities with less or no tech support is key.
James
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:40 PM, James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, 11 May 2017 at 14:32 James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Excellent to see.
Absolutely.
This complements nicely the RefToolbar on EN WP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RefToolbar
Will this lead to improvements in that tool? RefToolbar has trouble
pulling
the year of publication based on the ISBN.
Possibly, but not from the Wikimedia Foundation.
Gadgets are, by design, community-written and community-supported. The English Wikipedia community has a large number of technical experts who might help out in improving, or replacing, that gadget for the 2010-era wikitext editor. Most other wikis have no internal technical support; it's important that we ensure that we give help to those communities.
J.
James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester at wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Big milestone, folks, congrats to everyone involved and Marielle in particular.
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:41 PM, James Forrester jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey all,
I'm delighted to announce here that you can now use ISBNs to add automatically-generated citations to Wikipedia. This is thanks to a partnership with OCLC, a global non-profit library cooperative, whose WorldCat database of books is the largest in the world.
One of the editing features for which we've had the most praise is the tool to generate citations. This tool, started back in 2014, allows you to type in a URL, DOI, or PMCID and have it suggest a filled-in citation. Making it quicker and easier for new and existing editors alike to do the right thing is a key part of our work.
However, Wikimedians love our books, and the most-requested feature was to add to this the most common identifier for books, ISBNs. I know that a few wikis built their own custom gadgets to do this, but I felt that we should provide a proper, reliable tool that works on mobile as well as desktop platforms, for all users and in all languages.
Over the past while, we agreed a partnership with OCLC to provide this data for editors to use, to make referencing stronger and clearer for our readers around the world. Identifiers for books will help them find further information on topics that catch their interest, using our long-standing BookSources tool and OCLC's WorldCat database.
This is now live on all wikis which have Citoid set up. If your wiki doesn't have it, we'd love to help your community out – ask on the talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki. You can read more in the blog post https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/11/wikimedia-oclc-partnership/, and of course I'd love for you to try it out on a wiki that's configured with it near you.
My very big thanks to OCLC, in particularly Merrilee Proffitt, and to my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, particularly Marielle Volz, Marko Obrovac, and Jake Orlowitz, for making this possible.
Yours,
James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester at wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
This is a pretty feature-tastic week from WMF. First the new recent changes filters, now this :)
On 11 May 2017 21:41, "James Forrester" jforrester@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey all,
I'm delighted to announce here that you can now use ISBNs to add automatically-generated citations to Wikipedia. This is thanks to a partnership with OCLC, a global non-profit library cooperative, whose WorldCat database of books is the largest in the world.
One of the editing features for which we've had the most praise is the tool to generate citations. This tool, started back in 2014, allows you to type in a URL, DOI, or PMCID and have it suggest a filled-in citation. Making it quicker and easier for new and existing editors alike to do the right thing is a key part of our work.
However, Wikimedians love our books, and the most-requested feature was to add to this the most common identifier for books, ISBNs. I know that a few wikis built their own custom gadgets to do this, but I felt that we should provide a proper, reliable tool that works on mobile as well as desktop platforms, for all users and in all languages.
Over the past while, we agreed a partnership with OCLC to provide this data for editors to use, to make referencing stronger and clearer for our readers around the world. Identifiers for books will help them find further information on topics that catch their interest, using our long-standing BookSources tool and OCLC's WorldCat database.
This is now live on all wikis which have Citoid set up. If your wiki doesn't have it, we'd love to help your community out – ask on the talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki. You can read more in the blog post https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/11/wikimedia-oclc-partnership/, and of course I'd love for you to try it out on a wiki that's configured with it near you.
My very big thanks to OCLC, in particularly Merrilee Proffitt, and to my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, particularly Marielle Volz, Marko Obrovac, and Jake Orlowitz, for making this possible.
Yours,
James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforrester at wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org