--- On Tue, 15/3/11, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
From: Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Gendergap] How to use Wiki videos
To: gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Tuesday, 15 March, 2011, 23:20
A video incorporating the new RefToolbar (the thing that appears
when you click "Cite" in the editor) would be helpful in this
regard. Citation templates and citation formatting are definitely
one of the biggest barriers to truly integrating newbies into
Wikipedia editing (i.e. getting beyond doing spelling corrections).
I think that people would be a lot less intimidated if they knew
they could just paste in an ISBN number and click a button and the
citation is automatically created for them. (I remember my own
amazement at learning this.) Have you seen this utility? You just paste in
the Google Books URL, and it creates a named,fully formatted book
reference: http://reftag.appspot.com/?book_url=&dateformat=dmy It works
better than the autofill in the cite book template.
If you were looking at a particular page in Google Books, it also inserts the
page numberand adds a link to that page.
Andreas
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