and started
developing a node.js service Citoid[5] to
make it easy to insert citations using a URL/DOI/Title in VE/Wikitext.
To put that into perspective: she's working on a feature in VE that
will let you paste in a URL to, say, a New York Times article, and
will then automatically generate and insert a {{cite news}} template
for you with all the right information (title of the article, author,
date, etc.). Some of you may have seen the demo that she and Erik did
at a metrics meeting earlier this year. This is really exciting,
because it's a big step forward towards the goal of making even
relatively complex tasks like inserting citations more convenient in
VE than in wikitext.
Not going to lie, that sounds really cool. Can't wait to see that
finished.
Welcome Marielle. I wish you the best of times in everything you do
here.
Thank you,
Derric Atzrott