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Allow Extension:CiteThisPage to read page variables (to provide citations as "Dictionary of National Biography" on Wikisource)
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When someone visits a Wikisource page and clicks the "cite this page" link - say on https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pogson,_Norman_Robert_%28DNB00%29 - we should be able to provide the citation as "Dictionary of National Biography" with appropriate, author and year information rather than what we produce programmatically. This would probably require that Extension:CiteThisPage be able to read page variables. See also https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Thread:Extension_talk:Cite/Reading_variables_from_the_page_in_Extension:CiteThisPage

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Aklapper renamed this task from Wikisource could do with some modifications to Extension:CiteThisPage to Allow Extension:CiteThisPage to read page variables (to provide citations as "Dictionary of National Biography" on Wikisource).Mar 16 2015, 9:20 AM
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This js code by @Tpt has options to cite Wikisource properly as per Wikipedia norm.

What do you mean by “page variables”? I don’t think there are any variables containing author/year that could be read out.

Tacsipacsi changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Jun 7 2025, 11:21 AM