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What do we think about having some sort of error if there is no matching citoid map for a given itemType? The current behaviour is that it suggests a completely empty reference, which you can click on and insert, which is a rather confusing user experience. We should also show this error if there is a map, but no template parameters match. We could check to see if the template is empty of parameters before offering up the suggestion in the inspector. Hopefully won't come up much in real life, but at the very least might be helpful to devs/hosts.

Citoid is an extension that allows you to add citations from a url or other identifier from the Visual Editor. Getting started: Install mediawiki, enable citoid, and make sure to import the listed templates: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid#Installation_2 We should show the "we could not make a citation for you" error if no template parameters have been added to the citation. We could check to see if the template is empty of parameters before offering up the suggestion in the inspector. You can mimic this behaviour locally by removing the template data ( i.e. content between <templatedata> tags in Template/Cite_web/doc) and then adding a citation in visual editor, i.e. twitter.com.

What do we think about having some sort of error if there is no matching citoid map for a given itemType? The current behaviour is that it suggests a completely empty reference, which you can click on and insert, which is a rather confusing user experienceCitoid is an extension that allows you to add citations from a url or other identifier from the Visual Editor. We should also show this error if there is a mapGetting started: Install mediawiki, enable citoid, but no template parameters matchand make sure to import the listed templates: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid#Installation_2 We should show the "we could not make a citation for you" error if no template parameters have been added to the citation. We could check to see if the template is empty of parameters before offering up the suggestion in the inspector. Hopefully won't come up much in real lifeYou can mimic this behaviour locally by removing the template data ( i.e. content between <templatedata> tags in Template/Cite_web/doc) and then adding a citation in visual editor, but at the very least might be helpful to devs/hostsi.e. twitter.com.