[WikiEN-l] References bookmarklet?

[geni]

On 5 January 2011 22:36, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2011/01/04/what-you-see-is-for-the-win/comment-page-1/#comment-13632
>
> Someone suggested this on my blog. It's an *excellent* idea and needs
> a button added for it in the present Vector editor.
>
>
>
> Jen says:
> Wednesday 5th January, 2011 at 10:28 pm  (Edit)
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> Re John Broughton’s idea for “a **single click** way of generating the
> standard text/code for a footnote”…
>
> Would there be any way to make a nice little bookmarklet so people
> could drag a URL onto the button, and it would copy a wiki-citation to
> the clipboard?


Basically no

If you look at even [[Template:Cite web]] it requires stuff that you
have to go hunting for (author).

You could construct something for popular websites (BBC say) which
have a standard format.

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geni