User:CitationTool

This page contains discussion of the Citation Tool semi-bot. Watch for announcements of development progress. A related project is the experimental /Hybrid referencing footnote style.

Version 1.0 is [http://gnosis.cx/wikipedia/ now live!] It appears to be both functional and useful; for example, I identified errors in the {{tag|ref|o}} markup for [http://gnosis.cx/cgi-bin/check_refs.py?pageName=User%3ACitationTool%2FRace+and+intelligence&action=Analyze Race and intelligence]Δ and [http://gnosis.cx/cgi-bin/check_refs.py?pageName=User%3ACitationTool%2FJean+Laplanche&action=Analyze Jean Laplanche]Δ (two articles I happen to have worked on that use {{cite.php}}).If you use the identified test cases for testing, please rollback your changes after use so that other users see the same "typical" {{cite.php}} errors when examining the test cases.

To learn more about the use of Python for tasks such as this, see Text Processing in Python.{{harv|Mertz|2003}}

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Please list known problems here, if in pithy summary. For longer discussion of bugs (or misfeatures), use the talk page.

1. Sometimes, but not according to any pattern that seems obvious, updating a page with the "Update using this WikiText" button inaccurately reports an edit conflict. In such cases, you may still copy-and-paste the proposed text into the Wikipedia edit window.

I believe that a mixture of annotational footnotes and citational references is often desirable for articles. A toy example of this style is at: Wikipedia talk:Footnotes/Mixed citations and footnotes. An example "in the wild" of something similar is at Jello Biafra. Please consider whether such a mixed-style would be useful for articles you actively edit. Over time, this tool will aid more in creating this style.

This tool is intended to aid editors in automated page editing. The decision to use a particular reference style within an article is a matter for the consensus of article editors. Do not modify citation/footnote styles in an article simply because a tool exists that makes the process easier; only do so because editors agree that a particular style is desirable.

These might be worth keeping an eye on for errors that creep in with editing.

• Wikipedia:Citing sources
• Wikipedia:Citation templates
• User:Fictional tool, a semi-bot which has implemented metadata extraction for web citations [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homo_floresiensis&diff=70846628&oldid=70759091] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Fictional_tool]

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• {{cite book

|first=David|last=Mertz

|year=2003

|title=Text Processing in Python

|publisher=Addison-Wesley Professional

|isbn=0321112547

|url=http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/|format=HTML}}

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