Hi everyone.
In the past, several community members have worked to enable Citoid on
their wiki <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki> and to
get an easier referencing experience in the visual editor.
In order to create references from websites, Citoid heavily relies on
peculiar code, a.k.a. Zotero "translators" <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zotero>gt;; because of this, and because we want
to complement existing documentation about how to write them, we have
gladly accepted the offer of Sebastian Karcher, one of Zotero's main
contributors <http://www.sebastiankarcher.com/?page_id=33>, to host a
dedicated Tech Talk later this month.
Find all the details below. Huge thanks to User:Czar and Rachel F. for
making this happen.
Please spread the word among your communities!
Best,
Elitre (WMF)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:12 PM
Subject: Tech Talk: Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the
technology behind it: February 29th
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Please join for the following tech talk:
*Tech Talk**:* Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology
behind it
*Presenter:* Sebastian Karcher (Syracuse University, Zotero)
*Date:* *February 29th, 2016*
*Time: **20:00 UTC*
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Automated+citations+in+Wikipedia%3A+Citoid+and+the+technology+behind+it&iso=20160229T20&p1=1440&ah=1>
*Length:* 1 hour
Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltEL-kPURKs>
*IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office
*Summary: *The talk provides a very brief introduction to Marielle Volz's
Citoid, the tool providing Wikipedia's new automated citations.I then focus
on the technology underlying Citoid, Zotero translators, and discuss how
interested users/developers can help improve that functionality to better
serve the Wikipedia community.