Does this mean I won't have to be relying on Yadkard so much? Hooray! On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 3:41 PM, James Forrester <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey all, > > I'm delighted to announce here that you can now use ISBNs to add > automatically-generated citations to Wikipedia. This is thanks to a > partnership with OCLC, a global non-profit library cooperative, whose > WorldCat database of books is the largest in the world. > > One of the editing features for which we've had the most praise is the tool > to generate citations. This tool, started back in 2014, allows you to type > in a URL, DOI, or PMCID and have it suggest a filled-in citation. Making it > quicker and easier for new and existing editors alike to do the right thing > is a key part of our work. > > However, Wikimedians love our books, and the most-requested feature was to > add to this the most common identifier for books, ISBNs. I know that a few > wikis built their own custom gadgets to do this, but I felt that we should > provide a proper, reliable tool that works on mobile as well as desktop > platforms, for all users and in all languages. > > Over the past while, we agreed a partnership with OCLC to provide this data > for editors to use, to make referencing stronger and clearer for our > readers around the world. Identifiers for books will help them find further > information on topics that catch their interest, using our long-standing > BookSources tool and OCLC's WorldCat database. > > This is now live on all wikis which have Citoid set up. If your wiki > doesn't have it, we'd love to help your community out – ask on the talk > page > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki>. > You can read more in the blog post > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/11/wikimedia-oclc-partnership/>, and > of > course I'd love for you to try it out on a wiki that's configured with it > near you. > > My very big thanks to OCLC, in particularly Merrilee Proffitt, and to my > colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation, particularly Marielle Volz, Marko > Obrovac, and Jake Orlowitz, for making this possible. > > Yours, > -- > > James D. Forrester > Lead Product Manager, Editing > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > jforrester at wikimedia.org > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> | > @jdforrester > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- <https://about.me/andycyca?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api> Andrés C y C about.me/andycyca <https://about.me/andycyca?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=gmail_api> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
