[Foundation-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

[Fae]

Tom's point on lag is an important consideration, I tend to use tools such
as greasemonkey (see the wiki citation generator direct from Worldcat
entries - <http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/59173> - Google, The
Guardian and others also available) and my local scripts using iMacro to
scrape key information from a website and format a neat citation (see
attached iMacro javascript for the NY Times). Such tools being client side
ensures a quick response and I have had such poor experiences with server
site user scripts causing problems that I have invariably switched them off.

Though not an obvious solution for new users, having a standard tool for
Google books/news, WorldCat, leading newspapers etc. and possibly working
with partners such as Zotero might be a useful alternative path to consider
rather than limiting our thinking to the Wikipedia edit box interface.

Cheers,
Fae