Feature summary:
Provide more ways for editors to easily add useful reference material to wiki pages.
From this user-request (2025) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Better_Citation_Tool%3F :

I think that Wikipedia's cite tool, the one that comes up when you press the Cite button on the visual editor, should be improved to allow uploading a .RIS file and automatically populating all of the necessary fields based on that. I got the idea by using tools like Scrible, which have this functionality. I was thinking you could just implement this as an upload button in the Automatic tab of the Cite button, but I would be happy if it went anywhere in the tool. [...] - Mxwllhe

Notes:
Copying from an earlier thread (T128405), @Mxwllhe wrote:

Here is a sample RIS file, for reference:

Sample Citation.ris255 BDownload

Here is the link to the Wikipedia article, which outlines its syntax and specifications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIS_(file_format)
Hope this helps! - Mxwllhe

Copying from that earlier thread @Mvolz wrote:

In theory we can support import / export as translation-server already does this and supports RIS: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_standardized_formats .
It'd be relatively trivial, probably the hard part to my mind is the UI; if the file has multiple citations, how do we handle it? Currently you can't add multiple citations in one request...