On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Tomasz Finc <tf...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I am pleased to announce Marielle Volz joining the Wikimedia
> Foundation as a Software Engineer for the Editing team.
>
Welcome Marielle!
> and started developing a node.js service Citoid[5] to
> make it easy to insert citations using a URL/DOI/Title in VE/Wikitext.
>
To put that into perspective: she's working on a feature in VE that
will let you paste in a URL to, say, a New York Times article, and
will then automatically generate and insert a {{cite news}} template
for you with all the right information (title of the article, author,
date, etc.). Some of you may have seen the demo that she and Erik did
at a metrics meeting earlier this year. This is really exciting,
because it's a big step forward towards the goal of making even
relatively complex tasks like inserting citations more convenient in
VE than in wikitext.
Roan
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