toollabs:refill
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<ref>http://example.com</ref>
→<ref>{{cite web| url=http://example.com| title=Example Domain| publisher=}}</ref>
reFill (formerly Reflinks) is a tool that expands bare references semi-automatically, hosted on Tool Labs. It adds information (page title, work/website, author and publication date, if metadata is included) to bare references, and does additional fixes as well (e.g. combining duplicated references). The tool is written in PHP and licensed under Simplified BSD License. The tool is an open-source replacement of Dispenser's Reflinks. The source code is available on GitHub. The templates created automatically by the tool need to be reviewed to ensure that they are accurate, as they are often not.
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reFill 2
Editors are invited to test reFill 2, a new version of reFill under development. It offers a redesigned interface with real-time progress reporting while the tool is running, and resolves many issues affecting the current version of the tool. Userscript and bot developers may also take advantage of the APIs exposed by reFill 2 to complete bare references programmatically.
Usage
To request reFill assistance
If there is a particular article which contains bare URLs in the references, like this one,[1] and you would like to request a wikipedian that already has reFill installed (and is familiar with how it works) to help you fix the problem:
References
- Open the article in question in your browser
- Click the 'edit' button
- Paste the following line into the very bottom of the wiki-markup:
{{Cleanup-bare URLs}}
- Click the 'preview' button to verify that your change did not interfere with any other parts of the article
- Click the 'save' button
This will display a visible message (the text of which is shown at the top of Template:Cleanup-bare URLs) near the bottom of the wikipedia article, and will also add the article to an 'invisible' category which requests that a wikipedian experienced with reFill, apply it to the bare URLs in that article. It may take up to a week before someone notices your request, but if it has been several days and you have received no response, you can ask for additional assistance at the WP:TEAHOUSE.
To use reFill yourself
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/refill/ - This is the stable version of reFill. Paste the title of the article into the Page name textbox. You can choose to output plain CS1 citations or {{cite web}} templates.
- https://tools.wmflabs.org/refill/test/ - This is the test version of reFill automatically pulled from the latest source from GitHub. There might also be experimental code not available on GitHub. Tool Labs users can inspect the source code in
/data/project/refill/versions/test
.
Options
- Use plain formatting instead of {{cite web}}: If selected, the tool will fill out bare references in plain CS1 format instead of {{cite web}}. All available metadata is included.
- Do not remove link rot tags: If selected, the tool will not remove any link rot tags from the source, even if no bare references are skipped.
- Add blank metadata fields when the information is unavailable If selected, the tool will insert blank
|author=
and/or|date=
for filling in manually, when the corresponding metadata is unavailable. - Do not add access dates: If selected, access dates will be omitted from the result.
- Use the base domain name as work when this information cannot be parsed: If selected, the base domain of the link will be used in the
|website=
field if the website does not supply its name in embedded metadata.
Toolbox link
Insert this code into Special:MyPage/common.js:
mw.loader.load( "https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Zhaofeng_Li/Reflinks.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript" );
Bookmarklet
javascript:options='defaults=y&nowatch=y';location.href='https://tools.wmflabs.org/refill/result.php?wiki='+wgContentLanguage+'&page='+encodeURIComponent(wgPageName)+'&'+options;
Frequently asked questions
|publisher=
?|work=
cannot be parsed. Please fill it in manually.Reporting bugs
If you have found a bug or want extra features, please post to the talk page. Alternatively, you can also create an issue on GitHub.
Contributing
Having no Labs dependency, reFill can be easily installed on your own computer so that you can work on it. To contribute to reFill, create a fork on GitHub, make your changes and submit a pull request. Thank you for your contributions!
To translate the tool, please head over to Translatewiki.
See also
- CiteGen, a companion add-on for Chrome and Firefox that generates references
- User:Dispenser/Reflinks, the original tool by Dispenser
- Wikipedia:Citoid
- Userbox: {{User:UBX/reFill}}
This user uses reFill to expand bare references. |