Excellent to see. This complements nicely the RefToolbar on EN WP.
Will this lead to improvements in that tool? RefToolbar has trouble pulling
the year of publication based on the ISBN.
Best
J
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Andy Cruz y Corro <andycyca(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Does this mean I won't have to be relying on
Yadkard so much? Hooray!
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:41 PM, James Forrester <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org
wrote:
> Hey all,
> I'm delighted to announce here
that you can now use ISBNs to add
> automatically-generated citations to Wikipedia. This is thanks to a
> partnership with OCLC, a global non-profit library cooperative, whose
> WorldCat database of books is the largest in the world.
> One of the editing features for which
we've had the most praise is the
tool
to generate citations. This tool, started back in
2014, allows you to
type
in a URL, DOI, or PMCID and have it suggest a
filled-in citation. Making
it
quicker and easier for new and existing editors
alike to do the right
thing
> is a key part of our work.
> However, Wikimedians love our books,
and the most-requested feature was
to
add to this the most common identifier for books,
ISBNs. I know that a
few
wikis built their own custom gadgets to do this,
but I felt that we
should
> provide a proper, reliable tool that works on mobile as well as desktop
> platforms, for all users and in all languages.
> Over the past while, we agreed a
partnership with OCLC to provide this
data
for editors to use, to make referencing stronger
and clearer for our
readers around the world. Identifiers for books will help them find
further
> information on topics that catch their interest, using our long-standing
> BookSources tool and OCLC's WorldCat database.
> This is now live on all wikis which
have Citoid set up. If your wiki
> doesn't have it, we'd love to help your community out – ask on the talk
> page
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki
>.
> You can read more in the blog post
> <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/11/wikimedia-oclc-partnership/>, and
> of
> course I'd love for you to try it out on a wiki that's configured with it
> near you.
> My very big thanks to OCLC, in
particularly Merrilee Proffitt, and to my
> colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, particularly Marielle Volz, Marko
> Obrovac, and Jake Orlowitz, for making this possible.
> Yours,
> --
> James D. Forrester
> Lead Product Manager, Editing
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> jforrester at
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