I want to use the citoid service to put references within a template
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	Jun 19 2017, 7:09 PM

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What happens now:

Insert > Template.
Pick template.
Select parameter.
Type out <ref>{{cite book |title=Typos Happen |author=Expetr, Alice |date=2107 |publisher=Rnadom House |localisation=New York |langauge=ne}}</ref> by hand in the data field. From memory.
You're kidding, right?

What should happen:

Insert > Template
Pick template.
Select parameter (which might be tagged to say that it's supposed to have a citation in it).
Citoid does magic.
I'm happy.

Beautifully explained with a non-Wikipedia-focused example at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Trn8qa4kazbpewd1 by @QuimGil

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Mentioned In: T219801: Redesign Citoid UI for use outside of the current <ref> paradigm
Mentioned Here: T52355: VisualEditor: Add support for editing templates' parameters as DOM elements ("visually"), including supporting nested templates
T108521: Build a custom per-wiki per-template inserter tool for citation templates with URL/DOI/ISBN lookup

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• Whatamidoing-WMF created this task.Jun 19 2017, 7:09 PM

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Kind of a dup of T108521

Mvolz added a parent task: T165321: New param/pattern in service for requesting a single citation based on a unique identifier .Jun 20 2017, 7:27 AM

Mvolz merged a task: T108521: Build a custom per-wiki per-template inserter tool for citation templates with URL/DOI/ISBN lookup.Jun 20 2017, 7:29 AM

Mvolz added subscribers: Josve05a, Wostr, VIGNERON and 2 others.

Hmm, reading what @QuimGil suggests there, it sounds actually completely different than the other task :D.

Mvolz renamed this task from I want to use the citoid service to put citations in template parameters to I want to use the citoid service to put references within a template .Jun 20 2017, 7:43 AM

Mvolz removed a parent task: T165321: New param/pattern in service for requesting a single citation based on a unique identifier .

A larger, grander solution to this would be our work on T52355: VisualEditor: Add support for editing templates' parameters as DOM elements ("visually"), including supporting nested templates. I don't think investing a lot of effort in a one-off solution is the best use of our resources in this case.

• Deskana moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.Jun 20 2017, 7:31 PM

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