Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2018 October 5

= October 5 =

Wikitext references on personal wiki (installed on my own computer and already operational).
Dear kind wikipedia reference librarian,

I have spent the last two hours using a combination of google and wikipedia searches to try to get an answer to the following question, however, I want to give you appropriate context:

1) I've installed a personal wikitext based wiki on my computer.

2) I am a student of politics and government.

Therefore, I am trying to find a way to format citations (using whatever part of the wikitext language necessary) to write citations in APSA style. I've been fooling around by trying different references tools on wikipedia and I think I may have found the only possible option. Here is my messy example below:

Here he is speaking at the Heritage Foundation speaking on the same topic.

Which will render as following:

Here is he speaking at the Heritage Foundation speaking on the same topic.

Is there a plugin, extension, different wikitext code I must learn, or something else? Do I have to customize it each time? One of my intentions in using this personal wiki is to use what I think is called "metadata" that is used in ordinary wikipedia articles. That is, copying and pasting a "template" and then filling out the fields for example:

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Thank you for your time and attention,

David Davidson (David's son) III Esq.


 * I think I found a solution. I'm going to install it and report back: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiCitation — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.21.215.155 (talk) 18:35, 5 October 2018 (UTC)