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I have installed this add-on for Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0 and will be testing it shortly. Thanks for developing it! — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c)00:21, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
Zhaofeng Li, I've used it a bit today to try it out, and I have a couple things I might request. First, since I tab flip a lot (and sometimes forget to wait for it to load to copy the material), it would be great if it could cache the results locally so when I flip back it I don't have to wait for it to start over and try again. Also, it would be great if the pages it fails to work on could either offer some kind of report to help figure out why it didn't work on those pages (I've hit quite a few free pages not behind a paywall it fails on). It would be nice to have it have a checkbox that will wrap the citation in <ref>...</ref> tags (named refs are preferred of course, so they can easily be reused :D). It would also be appropriate to introduce a user option for whether it should be {{cite web or {{Cite web and it should allow the user to select the date format (MDY vs. DMY vs. YMD) if not set it should pull the browser default for the date format. Another thing that would be a great addition would be a button that an editor using the tool to work on a GA or FA could press to prevent linkrot by caching a version of the page on the way back machine or some other similar site and add the archive info to the citation template. I'm sure some of those ideas are much easier than others, and I'll throw more ideas at you as I have them. — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c)01:03, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
@Technical 13: Many thanks for your testing. Caching will certainly help, and more options will be available soon. As for pages it fails to work on, it will currently outputs an error message at the bottom ("HTTP Error: 403", etc). Zhaofeng Li [talk...contribs...] 07:58, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Title error
Hey, just for fun, I just ran in while I was on my Special:Watchlist page. It generated {{cite web|url=http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Special:Watchlist|title=Log in|publisher=|accessdate=19 December 2014}} and in this generation, I notice that the title is "Log in" instead of <title>Watchlist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title> or even <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en"><span dir="auto">Watchlist</span></h1>. Why is that? Thanks again for this great tool! — {{U|Technical 13}} (e • t • c)02:10, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
@Technical 13: No, it doesn't. That's where it's different from Cite4Wiki. The only thing the extension does is to send the URL to the server and receive the response. This way, more metadata can be parsed (the ability can even be extended without the user updating the extension) while keeping the download small. It's just like mw:Citoid which takes URLs as the input and spits out metadata. The current problem is that Citoid works great only on academic journals, but not on other sources (where it will only return a title). I'm planning to add Citoid as a back-end of Reflinks, so that metadata parsing of academic sources can be improved. Zhaofeng Li [talk...contribs...] 03:03, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
@Sam Sailor: Very sorry for the late response. I think the wiki should probably have some sort of "priority watchlist" where changes trigger an notification. The extension hasn't been updated for a while, and I'll roll out an update soon to address the known issues and add this feature. Thanks! Zhaofeng Li [talk...contribs...] 00:16, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
