First of all, I have to mention that almost all Wikipedia users inside Iran are experiencing some connection issues due to which some vital tools stopped working without a proxy.
Following a recent report on village pump regarding an issue with Citoid automatic citation generator in Visual Editor, I thought that it can be a new problem caused by the recent connection issues. but later I realized that the report mentions that the issue with Citoid is just present on Persian Wikipedia and the tool is working fine on English Wikipedia. So I think it can be some kind of compatibility problem.
Steps to replicate the issue:
- Open الش متیو in VisualEditor edit mode on Persian Wikipedia.
- Press Ctrl+Shift+K and go to the first tab (خودکار) for automatic citation.
- Paste a URL (for example this one from NBC News which is accessible from Iran without any proxy) and press "تولید" (Generate).
- You will see an error message which says that the tool cannot create the citation
- Now go to the corresponding English article in VE edit mode or, for example, the Spanish or Egyptian Arabic (rtl language) article.
- Press Crtl+Shift+K, go to the "Automatic" tab and paste the same URL in the input box and click "Generate".
What should have happened instead?:
The Citoid automatic citation generator works in all other wikis mentioned above and some others I've tested, but it's not working on Persian Wikipedia