Citation Bot's text.php is activated from the edit page "Citations" button added by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-citations.js gadget. Right now, it does not work (https://tools.wmflabs.org/citations/text.php returns 500:Internal Server Error). It should expand citations as expected.
Acceptance criteria:
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | • Fhocutt | T108412 Fix or replace Citation bot (tracking) [AOI] | |||
| Resolved | • Fhocutt | T110773 [AOI][Citation Bot] Fix text.php |
This is ready for testing on testwiki, as described here: https://github.com/fhocutt/citation-bot
Note that the bot+gadget combination is a clickjacker and will be blocked by extensions like NoScript.
Deprecated {{cite pmid}}, {{cite doi}}, etc. templates (see discussion). The bot should no longer create templates containing citation data that are transcluded, rather these templates should be substituted. Please note that User:Dexbot has been systematically substituting the existing transcluded templates.
Support for new "|vauthors=" parameter (see discussion). Instead of adding redundant "|lastn=" to citations that already contain Vancouver style formatted authors stored in a single "|author=" parameter, the bot should replace "|author=" parameter name with "|vauthors=", support for which has been recently added to all Citation Style 1 templates.
I left some comments related to the vauthors issue at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Citation_bot#Citation_bot_progress. Basically, my suggestion is to fix the redundant lastn bug, but avoid changing existing author parameters otherwise.
This should be running as before, using this script for the gadget on testwiki: https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fhocutt_%28WMF%29/common.js .