Excellent to see. This complements nicely the RefToolbar on EN WP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RefToolbar
Will this lead to improvements in that tool? RefToolbar has trouble pulling the year of publication based on the ISBN. Best J On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Andy Cruz y Corro <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> > -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine _______________________________________________ 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>
