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Allow arbitrary search strings in citoid
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Notify users draft:

You can now enter a plain text citation or the title of a journal article or book into the "Automatic" citation tab in Visual Editor. This will search both the Crossref and Worldcat repositories for the top result from each. As an example, try: E. Schrodinger, Proc. Cam. Phil. Soc. 31, 555 (1935). You can also use QIDs (from Wikidata). As an example, try Q40674886.

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Let users know they can search by title or citationmediawiki/extensions/Citoidmaster+2 -2
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Mvolz created this task.Jul 1 2018, 2:28 PM
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Mvolz triaged this task as Medium priority.Jul 1 2018, 2:29 PM
Mvolz added subtasks: T162357: Add support for worldcat search api xml results, T179123: Use crossref to search for human-readable citations copy-pasted from a bibliography in a PDF.
Mvolz moved this task from To Triage to Not ready to announce on the User-notice board.Jul 1 2018, 2:36 PM
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Change 466192 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mvolz; owner: Mvolz):
[mediawiki/extensions/Citoid@master] Let users know they can search by title or citation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/466192

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• iamjessklein subscribed.Oct 29 2018, 12:00 PM

+1 from me.

Mvolz added a comment.Oct 29 2018, 12:35 PM
In T198567#4702502, @iamjessklein wrote:

+1 from me.

Thanks!

Esanders edited projects, added VisualEditor (Current work); removed VisualEditor.Nov 1 2018, 12:59 PM
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gerritbot added a comment.Nov 1 2018, 1:12 PM

Change 466192 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/Citoid@master] Let users know they can search by title or citation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/466192

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Mvolz moved this task from Not ready to announce to Announce in next Tech/News on the User-notice board.Nov 2 2018, 10:31 AM
Mvolz added a subscriber: • Whatamidoing-WMF.Nov 2 2018, 10:34 AM

For user notice, something like:

You can now enter a plain text citation or the title of a journal article or book into the "Automatic" citation tab in Visual Editor. This will search both the Crossref and Worldcat databases for the top result. As an example, try: E. Schrodinger, Proc. Cam. Phil. Soc. 31, 555 (1935)

? @Whatamidoing-WMF seem okay? Also maybe it should go in the editing newsletter?

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Mvolz mentioned this in T124610: Offer to automatically convert bare-formatted references if we spot something that looks a bit like a URL or a DOI in it.Nov 2 2018, 10:57 AM
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Josve05a mentioned this in T208751: Allow arbitrary search strings in citoid from existing footnotes.Nov 5 2018, 5:38 PM
Jdforrester-WMF moved this task from Code review to Product owner review on the VisualEditor (Current work) board.Nov 5 2018, 7:15 PM
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Mvolz merged a task: T208936: add support to cite article by title.Nov 7 2018, 10:39 AM
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Johan moved this task from In current Tech/News draft to Already announced/Archive on the User-notice board.Nov 8 2018, 11:24 AM
• Whatamidoing-WMF added a comment.Nov 12 2018, 8:46 PM

This all looks good to me.

Is it meant to return only two results, if many are possible?

Mvolz closed this task as Resolved.Nov 15 2018, 11:23 AM
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jeblad subscribed.Mar 14 2019, 12:16 PM

Nice, really nice!

Daniel_Mietchen subscribed.Mar 15 2019, 2:50 AM
Mvolz added a comment.EditedMar 15 2019, 9:23 AM
In T198567#4740697, @Whatamidoing-WMF wrote:

This all looks good to me.

Is it meant to return only two results, if many are possible?

Yes... we unfortunately don't have a great way to order these, because worldcat will give a nonsensical result if it's a journal article, and crossref will give a nonsensical result if it's a book. So I return two in a random order based on speed. I'm hesitant to return a longer list without a better way to order these, so that the most relevant results are at the top.

Ladsgroup edited projects, added User-notice-archive; removed User-notice.Aug 13 2022, 1:54 PM
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