On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team.
Welcome Marielle!
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.
Roan