User:Chedzilla/tools

WP:Tools
Edit Counters
 * wikichecker (good)
 * soxred93 (good)
 * orig (broken)
 * wannabe Kate (good when running)
 * summary (down)
 * ~river wikimedia (bare summary)
 * Mike's (?}
 * Admin Stats
 * all wiki
 * Media Wiki

Vandals
 * WP:Lupin
 * Geolocate IP

Editors
 * User:Cacycle/wikEd
 * Overlapping Edits
 * compare edits (with time diff)


 * Search tools:
 * Google News Archive search
 * Chronicling America
 * NY Times archive
 * SmallTownPapers
 * Directory of Historical Newspapers on the Internet
 * US News Archives on the Web
 * Historical Newspapers Online
 * Free Newspaper Archives in the US
 * Google Scholar
 * Google Books


 * Scotty Wong's Tools (link)
 * Editor interaction
 * Editor contrib
 * Search edit summary
 * convert diffs

Misc
 * Special:Export
 * Special:Import
 * Reflinks (makes bare url a ref)

Admin
 * IP block search tool

Article Tools
 * Articles that have certain EL
 * Article history - editors (good overview)
 * Article history (sortable)
 * stalk - Article with common editors (temp)
 * Monitor Section of Editor Index
 * history tools at EIW
 * plagiarism checker (WP:PLAGIARISM
 * WikiBlame Who wrote what?
 * readability
 * Page stalker/watcher (aka centijimbos)
 * Article checks for quality (user:Epbr123)
 * CCI - Copyvio checker

Photos
 * Search Flickr for free images

Download WP
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Torrent Project
 * Snapshots
 * Database download
 * Wikipedia-CD/Download

Refs
 * sample
 * sfn ~ WP:SFN ~ efn
 * WP:LDR
 * Help converting refs, (in general: WP:CITE)
 * For notes; see: WP:FOOT, WP:REFGROUP
 * Fix bare URL's (must log in) (other tools there too)
 * citation bot (fixes stuff)
 * make ref

Editing
nb: there's also: which is a variant that cuts down on some the false positives; it gets confused cuts down on some true positives, so take care. Br&#39;er Rabbit (talk) 20:41, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Some things to know.
 * 1) The items in the bibliography have to specify the   parameter. The  template automatically includes the ref=harv parameter.
 * 2) The {sfn} template has to correctly specify the author name(s) and the year of the work (all must be spelled correctly; diacritics must match). For multiple authors, all must be placed in the template. Little errors such as   for   will cause breakage. The year specified must be the edition cited, not the original year, if that information appears in the citation.
 * 3) If there are tons of authors or no authors or the publication year is not known or you want something other than author and year, the  can be used in the down-below, and {sfn} in the up-above. Examples:   in the bibliography and   in the article;   in the bibliography and   in the article. Using {sfnRef} in the article breaks things.
 * 4) An unusual situation arises when there's multiple works cited by the same author in the same year. One solution is to place the book name in the {sfnRef template}. But putting it in italics breaks the template (but only in the {sfnRef}; the {sfn} is italicized the usual way), so we have to do "italics the hard way":   in the down-below, and   in the up-above. There's probably more things you need to know. -- Dianna (talk) 16:27, 26 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Scholarly papers and article names go in quotation marks, which don't break the templates. @Sitush: another handy tool is the Citation Bot, but be careful; each change has to be reviewed carefully as not all are helpful and some are the opposite of helpful :( -- Dianna (talk) 19:08, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

The WP:REFTOOLBAR gets tripped-up my a lack of quotation marks (as above). Likewise, it is best to do some initial clean up of gross errors before throwing citation bot and various toolserver toys at a page. They're just tools, they require proper understanding of their use. Br&#39;er Rabbit (talk) 20:41, 26 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I've not seen behaviour such as you describe. Mostly I use the diagnostic features of RefToolbar. I use http://reftag.appspot.com/ some, but not a lot. I mostly just edit and check my work. Br&#39;er Rabbit (talk) 21:00, 26 June 2012 (UTC)


 * copied in part from User talk:Br'er Rabbit for reference