Citoid generates an incorrect ISSN value for ''Time'' magazine (Zotero bug?)
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	Jonesey95
	Feb 5 2016, 5:30 PM

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How to reproduce: Open Citoid in Visual Editor and paste in the following URL:

http://world.time.com/2013/10/28/syrias-breaking-bad-are-amphetamines-funding-the-war/

Click Generate. You will see a citation template rendered with an incorrect ISSN for ''Time'' magazine. The ISSN identifier Citoid provides, 0040-718X, is invalid (the real value is 0040-781X, and you can see the red error message in Citoid's rendering of the template), but I see editors enter it on Wikipedia regularly. It looks like this problem may originate in Zotero. The same erroneous ISSN is listed in Zotero when I use the Zotero Firefox plug-in with that Time URL. If that is the case, does anyone here have a way to report bugs to Zotero?

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Jonesey95 created this task.Feb 5 2016, 5:30 PM

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I reported this to the Zotero developers:

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/59895/time-magazine-invalid-issn/#Comment_255843

Restricted Application added a project: VisualEditor. · View Herald TranscriptJun 14 2016, 3:46 AM

I can confirm that this is fixed in Zotero but not in Citoid. Is this an issue of old translators in Citoid or something else?

Citoid test:
https://citoid.wikimedia.org/api?format=mediawiki&search=http://world.time.com/2013/10/28/syrias-breaking-bad-are-amphetamines-funding-the-war/

Jdforrester-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Jul 19 2016, 7:29 PM

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Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from To Triage to TR0: Interrupt on the VisualEditor board.

Mvolz moved this task from Backlog to IO Tasks on the Citoid board.Jul 29 2016, 3:20 PM

Jdforrester-WMF set the point value for this task to 1.Aug 1 2016, 4:56 PM

Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from TR0: Interrupt to External and Administrivia on the VisualEditor board.Aug 9 2016, 7:30 PM

Rechecked, fixed with translator update

Mvolz closed this task as Resolved.Sep 30 2016, 4:10 PM

Mvolz lowered the priority of this task from Medium to Lowest.

Citoid generates an incorrect ISSN value for ''Time'' magazine (Zotero bug?)Closed, ResolvedPublic1 Estimated Story PointsActions

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Citoid generates an incorrect ISSN value for ''Time'' magazine (Zotero bug?)
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