[]1A question
came up in the last few days on the ALT list about citation management
in Wikipedia, and converting existing references in Word (using Endnote)
to export to Wikipedia. I had a quick look, and except for conversion
from Endnote to Zotero, I couldn’t see an easy thing to suggest – open
to correction! Some useful resources for others looking at similar
issues though: 1. Has some tools and suggestions for conversion from
word to wikitext (alternatives exist for open office too) which helps
with some of the conversion process (but not references) 2. Zotero seems
to have a Wikitext output format (so you can use that directly)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources_with_Zotero#Adding_references_into_Wikipedia_articles]2
but I can’t see one for Endnote. I don’t know if it’s possible to import
Zotero styles to Endnote, I think not though. It is possible to convert
your database from endnote to Zotero (which I recommend) but for
something like this that’s a lot of a faff! 3. Depending on how you
format your citations, it might be possible to run some sort of find and
replace (probably after conversion to wikitext) to add simple tags
around relevant text (for anything more complex than that I don’t think
it’ll work). 4. For working directly with Wikipedia (or mediawiki
generally) I highly recommend using the ‘ProveIt’ gadget
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ProveIt_GT#What_is_ProveIt.3F]3
which helps support citation management for individual articles.
WikiCite (I think) does something similar 5. may have some other
suggestions although from a quick glance I couldn’t see anything 6. For
anyone interested in citation on Wikipedia Did I miss anything? Add a
below!
Footnotes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources_with_Zotero#Adding_references_into_Wikipedia_articles ↩
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ProveIt_GT#What_is_ProveIt.3F ↩