[Wikimedia-in-en] GA Master Class - Using cite templates

[Swaroop Rao]

2012/1/15 <wheredevelsdare at hotmail.com>

>  iirc, I sent an email last week, its now much easier to use cite
> templates. You dont need the blank template anymore, just use the dropdown
> on the top of the edit box and fill in the blanks :)
>
> Dropdown is really useful, its the best way to add refs. For those using
ProveIt, its a good tool for refs too.


> ------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:50:49 +0530
> From: ashwin.baindur at gmail.com
> To: wikimedia-in-en at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimedia-in-en] GA Master Class - Using cite templates
>
>
> Someone asked, how do I use the templates for cite book, cite web etc?
> What does its columns mean?
>
> Let us look at a template cite book in this post.
>
> Typically, I store a shortened blank template for {{cite book}} which is:
>
> <ref name="">{{cite book |title= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors=
> |year= |publisher= |location= |isbn= |page= |pages= |url= |accessdate=9
> January 2012}}</ref>
>
> Its really simple, just fill in the blanks. For example -
>
> title (title of the book) = The Last Days of the Mahatma
> last (last name of author) = Desai
> first (first name of author) = Hirenbhai
> authorlink (if the author has a Wikipedia article on him, this is the name
> of that article, leave blank if none) =
> coauthors (names of additional authors, only if any) = Kulkarni, Srikanth
> & Karlekar, H. B.
> year (year of publication) = 2001
> publisher (name of publisher) = Nawajiwan Press
> location (which city is publisher located in) = Ahmedabad
> isbn (International Standard Book Number, earlier in 9 digits, now in
> thirteen digits, IMPORTANT, specify only one isbn in the template, doesn't
> matter whether 9-digit or 13-digit) = 0-941990-93-9
> page (give the page number; only use if the page referred was just one
> page) = 324
> pages (give the page numbers; only use if the page(s) referred to were
> more than one page ) = 324-327
> (IMPORTANT - Use "page" or "pages" but not both.)
> url (uniform resource locator, i.e. your web address in layman's terms) -
> http://books.google.com/books?id=ESgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60
> accessdate=The day you accessed it on the web
>
> Ah yes,
>
> ref name=some phrase you think off to link your common list-defined
> references.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
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Yes, Kolkata needs special attention, and all other city FAs need some
oiling and updating. Will get around to starting it in 5 days, though I
don't know if it'll be enough to save Kolkata.

Swaroop Rao
(MikeLynch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch>)
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