[WikiEN-l] References bookmarklet?

[Steven Walling]

Related project by Mozilla and some other developers, including from
Creative Commons:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Attribution_generator

<https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Attribution_generator>Steven

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:40 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
> >
> > 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.
>
> --
> geni
>
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