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5 Automatic citation link - ID: 1009425

Last Update: Settings changed ( hashar )

Details:

A link in the footer (down by the copyrights, timestamp,
and disclaimers) labeled "Cite this
article|page|whatever" be very useful. It make the life
easier for students using wikis as sources for their
papers. Ease of citation is a good way to ensure that
wikis actually get cited, which will generate more traffic,
which will generate better content, and so on.

The way I envision this feature working is that when a
user clicks the "Cite this article" link, a small pop-up
window would be generated, containing a proper citation
for the current revision of the article in a number of
popular formats (e.g., APA, MLA, MHRA).

Submitted:

benc ( bencvt ) - 2004-08-15 05:20

Priority:

Status:

Closed

Resolution:

None

Assigned:

Nobody/Anonymous

Category:

Page display/Skins

Group:

None

Visibility:

Public

Comments ( 3 )

Date: 2005-11-27 18:11 Sender: hashar Logged In: YES user_id=663115 Implemented as the Cite extension and live on wikimedia servers.
Date: 2004-09-21 16:27 Sender: aixccapt99 Logged In: YES user_id=756502 Forgot to add this: When I visit a cited-version link, and it is no longer the newest version, I should see a header note that I have visited the article as cited, but a newer version is available (and linked).
Date: 2004-09-21 16:20 Sender: aixccapt99 Logged In: YES user_id=756502 Also, this citation should include a URL which will refer to the page as viewed on the cited date. For example, I viewed Theater (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theater) in March, cited it and published a paper on my school's website. Someone read it in August, and went back to check the citation. In the meantime, the article had been improved, to the point where my quotations aren't there, the information doesn't line up, and my paper looks totally wrong. Now, I followed good style and my citation includes the date I visited the website, but my reader has to notice this, know that seeing the old version is possible, go to History, and manually select the page I saw. If the citation link could provide me a URL that would always refer to the page I saw (ie, the current version at the time the link is generated), I could cite confidently and easily.

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Field	Old Value	Date	By
status_id	Open	2005-11-27 18:11	hashar
close_date	-	2005-11-27 18:11	hashar

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