MediaWiki talk:Cite text

Download citation
Any way of making a downloadable version of the citation for software such as EndNote, COiNS, or Zotero?

This could be similar to the latitude/longitude download (although hopefully less cluttered! :-D ) Tristanb (talk) 01:34, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Edit Request - Lowercase "The" in Publisher bullet
In the publisher bullet, the word "The" should be lower case. Everything else is fine, though. Mylesgray (talk) 15:47, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
 * ❌. The phrase "The Free Encyclopedia" is actually transcluded from MediaWiki:Sitesubtitle rather than being directly written on this page. Changing that page would change it for every use, including in all the citation style examples. The capitalisation has remained unchanged at least since that MediaWiki page was created in 2004, so I don't think it should be changed without discussion first (also I'm not certain that I'd agree with changing it to lowercase). If you still think it should be changed, I'd recommend starting a discussion at MediaWiki talk:Sitesubtitle but as that is likely to be an very lightly watched page (it has had exactly two edits) it would be a good idea to link to the discussion from here, at MediaWiki messages, Wikipedia talk:Citing Wikipedia and possibly one of the village pump pages. Thryduulf (talk) 18:14, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

MLA citation should follow 7th ed.
Current page version's MLA citation looks like this.


 * "." , . 29 July 2024, UTC.  <>.


 * "." , . 29 July 2024, UTC.  <>.

According to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.), in effect since April 2009, this should be something more like:


 * contributors. "." , ., , 29 July. 2024. Web..


 * contributors. "." , ., , 29 July. 2024. Web..

This is a rough guess based on online resources including the OWL at Purdue. It would be great if anyone with access to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers could revise that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Escalona (talk • contribs) 18:18, January 5, 2010
 * ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:52, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

COinS problem
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This feature's COinS metadata is not found by tools such as the OpenURL Referrer extension for Firefox. The extension inserts a user-defined string into the span with  and makes it a link to a user-defined library service. Wikipedia is preventing that link from displaying, by styling an otherwise-redundant inner span, containing only a non-breaking space, as. Why are we making an "empty" (white-space-only) span not display?

Please change:

to:

to resolve this. As its the last thing rendered, displaying the space should cause no problems for people not using such tools. Andy Mabbett (User: Pigsonthewing ); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 10:42, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Hmm, interesting though. I thought clients were supposed to replace or add to the contents of the Z3988 span, why is it getting confused by a nested span ? Seems perfectly valid to me. The span does need 'some' contents, otherwise the software will remove it. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 13:32, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * There must be something else wrong with it. I tried removing the entire span, and the FF extension still isn't working apparently. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 13:49, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I can't get it to work at all. Is the OpenURL referrer extension still working ? —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 14:14, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

The extension is working for me; on every one of Wikipedia's instances of COinS I've tried, except this one. For example, one of the COinS on Bob Brettle has, when viewed using the extension, the source:



where:



is my chosen link-text, and is in a link to my chosen resolver, at ukoln.ac.uk.

The citation page for that artile has:



with no content in the element. Also, it's sufficient for the span's contents, before the extension begins work, to be just white-space. Andy Mabbett (User: Pigsonthewing ); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:26, 3 August 2010 (UTC)


 * My error console reports: "No chrome package registered for chrome://openurlref/content/options.xul" for https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4150/ with FF 3.6.8. So it seems the package is bust. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 16:28, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm now using Zotero, which had no problem, but I think I found the problem, the aucorp field was broken. That still leaves me with a broken openurl referrer extension of course, so I cannot be sure. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 16:54, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * AIUI, Zotero screen-scrapes, so it will show a positive result whatever the COinS span is doing. Whatever change you have made, the Firefox extension still finds a COinS span in all Wikipedia pages I've tried, except for those generate using Cite_text. Likewise, it's also working on every other COinS-emitting page I've tried. Andy Mabbett (User: Pigsonthewing ); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:25, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * No, it specifically read the coins tag. It notes that in it's tooltips. There is nothing more that I can do here for now I fear. Anyone else is welcome to propose changes, but i can't verify any of them, so it is up to the requestor to continue development of this. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 12:07, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Since you can't help, I've restored the edit request so that someone else can carry it out. Andy Mabbett (User: Pigsonthewing ); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:47, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * We tried your suggestion, you said that it still wasn't working. I have therefore restored the hidden span (which I note is also present in all other Coins HTML output of the citation templates). As such there is no request here anymore that anyone can fulfill. Please make an actual request as to how the MediaWiki page should be changed, or find somebody who can figure this out for you. Having the request left open here won't reach that goal. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 23:15, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Positioning
Next point on the agenda. better positioning. Where do you propose we put this element in this webpage, it's indeed rather tucked away atm. Perhaps just in the bibliographic details box ? —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 16:56, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * There seems to be some mixing of coins book/journal properties and coins dublincore properties in this one btw. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 18:26, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm not really bothered where on Cite_text it goes. Like I've said, I'd expect to find it - and think most people would - on the article itself. Andy Mabbett (User: Pigsonthewing ); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 21:08, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * That's not possible atm. You should make a request for that, so that it can be integrated into the software in a manner that doesn't completely FU caching. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 12:04, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

protocol relative URLs
Please update this page. See 31681 and 99905. Liangent (talk) 15:39, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
 * You will need to detail exactly what changes are required and what the impact of them will be. Thanks &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:49, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ I figured it out. Anomie⚔ 19:53, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:54, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Harvard JOLT style
The "Bluebook: Harvard JOLT style" section should have the wikilink changed, since the Wikilink destination anchor section was removed from Bluebook five years ago – it should probably link to Citing Wikipedia instead.

Also, it seems like the canonical URL for that entry here is inconsistent – it's not linking to the revision since it's missing the oldid= parameter. The cannonicalurl portion should be   instead of what's there currently. Mojoworker (talk) 16:50, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks like REVISIONID was omitted on purpose: Wikipedia talk:Citing Wikipedia Mojoworker (talk) 17:15, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I removed the JOLT style since the current issue of JOLT uses a different citation method. Shii (tock) 22:08, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 7 February 2016
When we supersede pages, we should create redirects instead of the dead ends that this one’s created. This page should redirect to MediaWiki:Citethispage-content like this:  — LLarson &#160; (said&#8239;&amp;&#8239;done) 16:50, 7 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Can you go in to further details as to where you are seeing this message be used, that it needs a redirect? We don't normally redirect mediawiki messages. —  xaosflux  Talk 12:50, 8 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Apologies—I didn’t know we don’t normally redirect MediaWiki messages. I was led here while studying WP:COinS; proposing this redirect seemed more expedient than editing all of the pages that link here. Even though we don’t normally redirect MediaWiki messages, this case might be special because we’d be creating a redirect for a page move. It does, however, look like it’s no longer here because it was deleted by ?$[]$ — LLarson &#160; (said&#8239;&amp;&#8239;done) 16:13, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 * When a MediaWiki page is "deleted" it reverts to the system default message, this page is different as it is longer expected to be getting called. What is actually leading editors or readers to this page?  I'm still a bit lost on that, can you describe the steps an editor is taking that would land them here? —  xaosflux  Talk 16:25, 8 February 2016 (UTC)


 * No problem. I was reading this version of COinS, which said that
 * “So far COinS have been added to: ... MediaWiki:Citethispage-content – generated when you click Cite this article; contains information for citing Wikipedia itself in other documents”
 * and I wanted to find out what that content was. I tracked down the intended target (MediaWiki:Citethispage-content), but instead of editing COinS, I intended to edit the current target (MediaWiki:Citethispage-content) because COinS wasn’t the only page linking here. Does that help answer your question? — LLarson &#160; (said&#8239;&#38;&#8239;done) 16:49, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
 * - The best way to fix this is to fix the other pages, I'll look at doing a bot clean up run for this. COinS has other erros in that same sentence alone, for example the link is not labeled Cite this article, I see it as Cite this page. —  xaosflux  Talk 01:10, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I chased down the links that were likely to be used and updated them already. — xaosflux  Talk 01:21, 9 February 2016 (UTC)