Wikipedia talk:ProveIt/Archive 2018

ProveIt may have added unsupported parameters
I can't explain this edit. The edit summary says "edited with ProveIt", but I don't see a way that ProveIt could have added month to six new citation template instances. Could be using a very old version of ProveIt somehow? – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:00, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Not 100% up to speed about what's going on, but I know that ProveIt often does this to me. The ProveIt option "Journal" contains a field labelled "Month", which comes out as unsupported. I've encountered other such fields occasionally. As to what version I'm using, I'm not sure, as under my Preferences I have both ProveIt and ProveIt classic checked. Used to have just ProveIt until a few months ago when that stopped working. Hope that helps. -- 2ReinreB2 (talk) 20:04, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

ProveIt also appears to be adding trans_title, which is deprecated and will soon be unsupported. See this edit from less than an hour ago. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:44, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Add templates
Is there anyway to add custom templates? There are several I use for law articles that are not widely used outside the topic area, but it would be helpful if there were a feature to add these additional templates. Seraphim System ( talk ) 03:18, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi. Actually, I was thinking there should be a way to update currently supported ones to reflect the status quo. —Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 10:05, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Not working
New ProveIt alows automatic population from a url, which is great, but since about a week ago it has simply stopped appearing in my browser - Classic works, but not the current version. Does anyone know which widgets conflict? Guy (Help!) 13:42, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Mine was working the other day. Today I noticed the new version was gone, but the old classic version was still working. I have made no changes recently. Fyunck(click) (talk) 10:53, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Classic proveit website error
If using classic proveit, on the bottom right-hand corner is a big box that says "proveit" which links to a dead website, proveit.wmflabs.org. It should probably now link to here as talked about right here. Fyunck(click) (talk) 03:42, 13 March 2018 (UTC)

Part of the GUI is still out of the screen
At least in Firefox, the browser I most often use. Since this was fixed for Chrome users, I wonder if it can be fixed for Firefox users as well. -- Kailash29792 (talk)  01:50, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Having the same issue here using Firefox 60.0 beta 7 x64. I'd be more than happy to provide more information and/or data. I know this was already discussed earlier, but there hasn't been any activity since October 2017. I also want to thank everyone involved with this project, it's an amazing tool! –Daybeers (talk) 04:17, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Updating an existing citation is not working
Good day everyone. I was just trying out ProveIt on this version of the article Hosaramanahalli. I opened proveit, clicked on the sole reference, changed the the existing reference to use a "cite web" template and then loaded the parameters from the URL and then finally I clicked on "update". However, on clicking update, nothing happened. I am not sure of this is a bug, but I would be happy to learn more about it. I also tried using it on [another article where updating an existing reference worked. So I don't know if this is a bug with my browser or the tool.--[[User:DreamLinker|DreamLinker]] (talk) 18:41, 20 July 2017 (UTC)


 * I'm having this issue on the latest version of Chrome. The first time I hit Update, it highlights some text starting from the beginning of the article, but changes nothing. Subsequent clicks continue to change nothing. Even if I attempt to highlight the reference I want to update (both including and excluding the ref tags) and then clicking Update, it still does nothing. – numbermaniac  08:51, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Cite journal error
A lot of the time when I use ProveIt to create citations for journal articles, the date will be formatted wrong (as YYYY-MM, when it should be the name of the month spelled out, then the year, though there are other options). This generates an error message, and if ProveIt could be fixed so it would produce correctly formatted dates when journal DOIs/PMIDs are entered, that would be great. Everymorning talk to me 19:38, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Are you using the new version or the classic version? The classic version will respect the date format in you user preferences. The developer of the new version has stated a preference for ISO date formats across the board. Of course the classic version doesn't support Citoid.- MrX 🖋 19:54, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * If the new version of ProveIt is inserting dates that produce an error message in citation templates, that is a bug that should be fixed. One developer's preference cannot override en.WP consensus (link to the MOS "bad date formats" table). If the developer refuses to spell out month names, the month should be omitted entirely, leaving only the year. – Jonesey95 (talk) 05:12, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Additional Citation Style 1 Templates
Hi, I was wondering if there is a roadmap to add support for additional CS1 Templates - I'm personally interested in seeing a "Report" template equivalent to added. -Furicorn (talk) 19:47, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * There is no roadmap for this right now, but it should be possible to add support for this and any other citation templates by just adding it to the list of templates at MediaWiki:Gadget-ProveIt.js --Sophivorus (talk) 15:58, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. Sophivorus (talk) 22:06, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Template:Cite episode
When editing any ref following this template, ProveIt does not seem to recognise many fields listed here such as "authors". I hope someone can do something about this. -- Kailash29792 (talk)  05:54, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
 * This is probably because "authors" is not in the TemplateData of Template:Cite episode. If you add "authors" and any other missing parameters to the TemplateData of the template, ProveIt (and other services) will recognize them. --Sophivorus (talk) 15:56, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Per the template's documentation: authors: Free-form list of author names; use of this parameter is discouraged. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:24, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Flip Last & First
Due to inconsistencies on OCLC or elsewhere, the entries returned for last & first are often returned the wrong way around. A button to flip them around would be a great time saver. Thanks, Cabayi (talk) 13:15, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Could you share a screenshot and/or a faulty OCLC so that we may reproduce the issue? Thanks! --Sophivorus (talk) 15:52, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * , Now you ask for it I can't find one from OCLC but all the ISBNs I've checked have come back with reversed first & last names, 978-1771602891, 0963564226, and 9780807861325. Hope that helps, Cabayi (talk) 16:09, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * , I created an enhancement report at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214061 but I can't promise I'll take care right away. However, I'm evaluating the possibility of requesting another grant to take care of this and many other requests and bugs. --Sophivorus (talk) 17:15, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Time in access date
Starting today, the access date field is being populated with the time also in ISO 8601 format, but citation templates can't handle those values. Could someone revert that change, please? Thanks. — howcheng  {chat} 17:40, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * A link to an example diff is always helpful. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:54, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Here is a diff of me manually fixing this annoying problem just now. I have had to do this several times just in the past few hours and I'd also like it fixed. IntoThinAir (talk) 19:25, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah I didn't have a diff because I kept manually deleting the time before saving it. — howcheng  {chat} 21:52, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * An urgent bug has been filed. – Jonesey95 (talk) 02:54, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
 * This problem is reportedly as of about three hours ago. – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:39, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

Journal citation generator not working
When I now try to use ProveIt to generate a citation template for a journal article by entering the DOI, URL, or anything else, it no longer fills in any of the parameters like it used to. Instead, it now just fills in the URL with the URL of the paper but with a "captcha challenge" added to the end. IntoThinAir (talk) 03:33, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I just tried with https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16961 (DOI 10.1038/nature16961) and had no trouble. Is this still an issue for you? --Sophivorus (talk) 15:51, 17 January 2019 (UTC)