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Hi Neil,

as active Wikipedia con­trib­u­tor I think this is so great. First: on a prac­ti­cal level. Cita­tions and refren­rences in Wikipedia are actu­ally a mess, and I spend way too much time to get cita­tion code right, instead of actu­ally con­tribut­ing con­tents to Wikipedia. So a help like this is greatly appreciated.

Sec­ond: as a sym­bol. This tool by Euro­peana shows appre­ci­a­tion of Wikipedia and the work done there. It will help in con­vinc­ing other insti­tu­tions that Wikipedia can actu­ally help them, and is a project worth con­tribut­ing to.

Hi Dirk, thanks for your com­ment. It’s great that you find this new fea­ture prac­ti­cal and I’m excited to hear that you will be actively using it.

Hi Neil,

under­stand­ing that most peo­ple use cite web for foot­notes it would be awe­some to wrap … around your cite web tem­plate by default or to make this an option via a check­box. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes

Regards, Peter Weis

Hi Peter,
Would it just be a mat­ter of adding the tags in our out­put at the start and end? If so, yeah we can add that as an optional output.

And then the edi­tor would cre­ate the actual foot­note list himself/herself?

Regards,
David Haskiya (Prod­uct Develeper at Europeana)

Hi David,

first of all: the ref tag did not dis­play cor­rectly in my last post; you can see on the Help:Footnotes link I’ve attached
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Yes indeed, adding the tags to the start and end is all which needs to be done. The foot­note list is cre­ated auto­mat­i­cally in the References“section of an arti­cle. A tem­plate called “{{Reflist}}” is placed in this sec­tion and “col­lects” any cita­tion that is using the ref tag. Hence, wrap­ping the ref tag around your “{{cite web}}” tem­plate will assure that cita­tions from “Cite on Wikipedia” are dis­played cor­rectly in the Ref­er­ences sec­tion of an arti­cle. If you need any more infor­ma­tion, feel free to con­tact me via mail.

Regards, Peter Weis

Hi Peter,
The blog didn’t like the brack­ets around ref in my com­ment either! And this was the answer I was look­ing for.

Adding to next sprint’s log to offer an optional ref-wrapped out­put in the Cite on Wikipedia function.

Cheers,
David

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also from the con­tent providers site, I think this is great! Makes me won­der if there is a stan­dard for cita­tions that applic­a­ble wider then bib­li­o­graph­i­cal objects. that would pre­vent Euro­peana from hav­ing to sup­port dif­fer­ent for­mats for every pos­si­ble tar­get. Even Wikipedia has already two.