I've noticed that spaces in URL's often don't get escaped properly. For example:
<ref name="book_TheB">{{Cite web | title = The Bronx, in Bits and Pieces | author = | work = Google Books | date = | accessdate = 2018-02-03 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WeVTP3GyFH0C&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=faile+mansion&source=bl&ots=Gi_ATxuIsJ&sig=nMvLUfi4Y0Ckl8G377s-9IspZqA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiC78nhzofZAhWKxFkKHW3nCBgQ6AEwDnoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=faile mansion&f=false | language = | quote = }}</ref>
The url field has q=faile mansion. The embedded space should be escaped to a + (or maybe some %hex code).
Other than that, this is a truly awesome tool. Thanks for making it available! -- RoySmith (talk) 15:54, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
I have read over the instructions for using this tool. But I am not a webmaster nor an HTLM specialist, I am just a person who wants to create a citation from a newspaper web page, and I still have no idea how to use it. Was hoping for instructions that were geared to a much more generalized audience, one that, for example, does not know what it means to "run a script" on a page (I know what a web page is, and I know how to run a mile, and I have read many scripts, but I do not know how to run a script any more than I know how to read a mile!). Am hoping you can reword things here for the lay user. Please consider it. Thank you! A loose necktie ( talk) 08:35, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
It really is this easy. Any questions, just let me know. You can also send me an email if you get really stuck and don't want to discuss it here, but I doubt that you'll need to.
-- Peter NYC ( talk) 23:22, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
@ V111P: We have presented a proposal to develop a visual Citoid/Zotero web translator tool, to enable non-technical users collaboratively widen Citoid coverage. I have recently learned about your tool WebRef (thanks to User:Fuzheado) and I see it has a similar goal. We would highly appreciate your thoughts and comments in the discussion page, and your endorsement if you would like to support it. Thank you! -- Diegodlh ( talk) 23:03, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
At
this discussion at
WP:VPT, I noted that some tool(s) are adding stuff like {{!}} Thesaurus.com
to |title=
(see the example citation in that discussion). Another editor in that discussion suggested that this tool does that sort of thing. If it does, please fix the tool. The website name does not belong in |title=
ever. Instead, put the website name in its appropriate parameter |website=
.
Thank you
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 13:23, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
@ V111P: I'm trying to use the "Date formatter" function to set the accessdate to %Y-%m-%d (2021-07-31), but the various variations I can think of myself I get the response that 'Sorry couldn't parse that'. 1Veertje ( talk) 12:35, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi, @ V111P! I loved your script and just finished translating it's code and documentation to portuguese ( pt:Usuário:BraunOBruno/WebRef and pt:Usuário:BraunOBruno/WebRef.js). I'm wondering if it's ok to include it as a interiki link in your page. The same would be done in the translated version. Thank you in advance and thank you for the great tool! BraunOBruno ( talk) 18:37, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
I've noticed that spaces in URL's often don't get escaped properly. For example:
<ref name="book_TheB">{{Cite web | title = The Bronx, in Bits and Pieces | author = | work = Google Books | date = | accessdate = 2018-02-03 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WeVTP3GyFH0C&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=faile+mansion&source=bl&ots=Gi_ATxuIsJ&sig=nMvLUfi4Y0Ckl8G377s-9IspZqA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiC78nhzofZAhWKxFkKHW3nCBgQ6AEwDnoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=faile mansion&f=false | language = | quote = }}</ref>
The url field has q=faile mansion. The embedded space should be escaped to a + (or maybe some %hex code).
Other than that, this is a truly awesome tool. Thanks for making it available! -- RoySmith (talk) 15:54, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
I have read over the instructions for using this tool. But I am not a webmaster nor an HTLM specialist, I am just a person who wants to create a citation from a newspaper web page, and I still have no idea how to use it. Was hoping for instructions that were geared to a much more generalized audience, one that, for example, does not know what it means to "run a script" on a page (I know what a web page is, and I know how to run a mile, and I have read many scripts, but I do not know how to run a script any more than I know how to read a mile!). Am hoping you can reword things here for the lay user. Please consider it. Thank you! A loose necktie ( talk) 08:35, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
It really is this easy. Any questions, just let me know. You can also send me an email if you get really stuck and don't want to discuss it here, but I doubt that you'll need to.
-- Peter NYC ( talk) 23:22, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
@ V111P: We have presented a proposal to develop a visual Citoid/Zotero web translator tool, to enable non-technical users collaboratively widen Citoid coverage. I have recently learned about your tool WebRef (thanks to User:Fuzheado) and I see it has a similar goal. We would highly appreciate your thoughts and comments in the discussion page, and your endorsement if you would like to support it. Thank you! -- Diegodlh ( talk) 23:03, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
At
this discussion at
WP:VPT, I noted that some tool(s) are adding stuff like {{!}} Thesaurus.com
to |title=
(see the example citation in that discussion). Another editor in that discussion suggested that this tool does that sort of thing. If it does, please fix the tool. The website name does not belong in |title=
ever. Instead, put the website name in its appropriate parameter |website=
.
Thank you
— Trappist the monk ( talk) 13:23, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
@ V111P: I'm trying to use the "Date formatter" function to set the accessdate to %Y-%m-%d (2021-07-31), but the various variations I can think of myself I get the response that 'Sorry couldn't parse that'. 1Veertje ( talk) 12:35, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
Hi, @ V111P! I loved your script and just finished translating it's code and documentation to portuguese ( pt:Usuário:BraunOBruno/WebRef and pt:Usuário:BraunOBruno/WebRef.js). I'm wondering if it's ok to include it as a interiki link in your page. The same would be done in the translated version. Thank you in advance and thank you for the great tool! BraunOBruno ( talk) 18:37, 30 May 2024 (UTC)