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October 5
editWikitext references on personal wiki (installed on my own computer and already operational).
editDear kind wikipedia reference librarian,
I have spent the last two hours using a combination of google and wikipedia searches to try to get an answer to the following question, however, I want to give you appropriate context:
1) I've installed a personal wikitext based wiki on my computer.
2) I am a student of politics and government.
Therefore, I am trying to find a way to format citations (using whatever part of the wikitext language necessary) to write citations in APSA style. I've been fooling around by trying different references tools on wikipedia and I think I may have found the only possible option. Here is my messy example below:
Here he is speaking at the ''Heritage Foundation'' speaking on the same topic. <ref>[[#2017. C-SPAN.|2017. ''C-SPAN.'' "Separation of Powers." https://www.c-span.org/video/?436265-1/judge-brett-kavanaugh-speaks-separation-powers-2017]]</ref>
Which will render as following:
Here is he speaking at the Heritage Foundation speaking on the same topic.[1]
Is there a plugin, extension, different wikitext code I must learn, or something else? Do I have to customize it each time? One of my intentions in using this personal wiki is to use what I think is called "metadata" that is used in ordinary wikipedia articles. That is, copying and pasting a "template" and then filling out the fields for example:
{{cite book |last1=Ritter |first1=R. M. |date=2003 |title=The Oxford Style Manual |page=1 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-860564-5}}}}
Thank you for your time and attention,
David Davidson (David's son) III Esq.
References
- I think I found a solution. I'm going to install it and report back: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiCitation — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.21.215.155 (talk) 18:35, 5 October 2018 (UTC)