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Mon, Nov 17
Sorry, the person who was usually merging these requests hasn't been working on the project for some time lately. I just merged the pending pull request.
Nov 11 2025
Gracias @Sophivorus! That's all very useful information.
Nov 10 2025
Also @Sophivorus recommended maybe using mw.track() as used in ProveIt gadget.
Oct 31 2025
I see today a" Powered by Wayback Machine" message in the citation dialog (with Web2Cit disabled). Consider T408872.
What about {{#invoke:wd|title|linked|Q2}} or {{#invoke:wd|label|linked|Q2}}?
Make sure we resolve T408860 before.
Apparently not yet supported for web services? T362077
The undefined fields of the resulting citation (...) are automatically filled in with the corresponding Citoid response.
Alternatively, in the meantime, just remove the column to avoid confusions.
In wikitext, pipes can used as {{!}}.
Consider this comment here: T308328#7927379
Oct 30 2025
Also note what would happen if a path and field, for which a procedure has been defined but no goal has been set, is opened by the Web2Cit-JSON-Editor form? Will it fail? Will it prevent users from saving until the error has been fixed?
The idea is to post this spreadsheet to Meta
Nidia posted this to Meta and linked to it on 2023-05-11: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web2Cit/Research&diff=prev&oldid=25006825
Then use range transformation "0" to keep the first item selected.
When this is fixed, consider notifying interested users that they can now watch result pages to monitor score changes:
Oct 28 2025
it gets the list of configuration files, and asks for the latest revision timestamp, one by one.
Analogous to T317168.
a collaborative repository of community-curated transformation functions.
This seems to be working much better with Citoid/Zotero now. Only the first name is retrieved slightly wrong, with a "Por" (By) prefix.
may reduce the cases where a date field would be missing, but may result in wrong force converted dates.
Note this would already be available from the monitor's result pages if T317977 is addressed.
Whatever wasn't working seems to be working now.
This seems to be fixed already.
Oct 27 2025
Hi, @AlexisJazz! Just checked this again for https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/could-may-and-might and it seems to be working at least for me now. Could you check it too? Shall we close this?
There is a problem with this domain https://www.bcn.cl/, when we use it in automatic citations it only retrieves the main domain but not anything after.
Oct 14 2025
Hi, @AlexisJazz! Sorry, I just saw this.
Apr 29 2025
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Apr 21 2025
In the meantime, a Split transformation step may be used first to split a string into its characters. However, this would only work as expected if the original input is a single string (i.e., not an array of strings).
Apr 1 2025
the idea would be that requests originating from user scripts or gadgets set their own api-user-agent. However, because of the way how Web2Cit-Gadget patches the Citoid extension, doing this may not be as straightforward.
Thanks for reporting this.
Feb 21 2025
As described in T305166, there may be cases where the fallback template (which currently uses Citoid selection for all fields) does not apply.
Sep 5 2024
Interestingly, this does not happen when the template uses fixed-value selection steps only:
This selection step may be useful in cases where we can't get the webpage because we have been blocked. As suggested in T305168, we could use such a URL selection step to guess a title.
Aug 22 2024
Aug 20 2024
Tool is cool, but it seems not entirely compliant with https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Recommendations_for_gadget_developers_on_Wikimedia_wikis
Aug 16 2024
Client-side metadata extraction sounds like an interesting idea to both circumvent sites blocking Citoid (as mentioned in T362379) and to support sites which rely on the browser running some JavaScript code to display content.
Client-side metadata extraction and citation generation, as proposed in T362379 to circumvent the problem of sites blocking Citoid, may also result in supporting JavaScript-generated content.
Aug 15 2024
As mentioned in the original thread linked to above, we have decided not to make these message key id and variable renames for the moment. We may do them some time in the future, but maybe Fluent file format will be supported by then, who knows.
Aug 8 2024
Prototype available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Diegodlh/search-wpl.js
Jul 25 2024
Jul 8 2024
One concern here (apparently not mentioned before) is that not all constraints can be satisfied by a single edit, for example “symmetric” and “inverse"
Jun 28 2024
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Feb 26 2024
Hi, @Ivi104! Thank you for your interest in Web2Cit and for posting your question here.
Nov 17 2023
Merged. Sorry for the inconveniences. We will try to merge this more regularly. Thanks for your understanding!
Sep 27 2023
no easy way to edit this configuration (in cases where doing so may be useful).
Note that the error persists when the template is changed to be non-applicable.
@DrThneed reported in T313236 another URL for which Citoid (and therefore Web2Cit fallback template) fail: https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4g2/galbraith-alexander.
Thank you @DrThneed for reporting those sites.
Sep 25 2023
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May 19 2023
@CristianCantoro would this be related to what you mentioned at the pitching session? I'd love to collaborate!
May 18 2023
Also potentially related: https://wikicitations.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page
@Isaac, have you heard of something like this before? What do you think about it?
Do you (or could you) support Cite Q through this tool? Also see T289287.
May 17 2023
I've just asked the community around the Cite Q template whether they know if such an analysis has been done already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Cite_Q#Template_usage_across_Wikipedias
@Pablo mentioned the tool https://github.com/internetarchive/iare. A couple months ago there was https://internetarchive.github.io/ware/, which seemed to be a frontend using IARE on the background. However, the site is down now, and the repository (https://github.com/internetarchive/ware) redirects to the IARE repository. Maybe @Harej can provide further information?