Last modified: 2014-11-18 20:50:06 UTC
It would be convenient if the reference tool would autofill {{cite book}} from a URL to books.google.com This is done in several existing gadgets on the English Wikipedia and is especially helpful for books that do not have ISBNs.
This is part of bug 50768's re-written merged form; am re-splitting and using this one for the second half.
*** Bug 60863 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to WhatamIdoing from comment #0) > It would be convenient if the reference tool would autofill {{cite book}} > from a URL to books.google.com This is done in several existing gadgets on > the English Wikipedia and is especially helpful for books that do not have > ISBNs. Czech Wikipedia could be filled from national book database. I think their API might be available to us as we were already negotiating with them. Basically every time I fill reference template and also ISBN variable I wonder, why this cant be done automaticaly as in many countries such data are available and readable for scripts. But what Ive been talking about in https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60863 was just to load some basic options and than the user should file them by values. But this proposal is even better.
