Extension talk:Pubmed

Could this be made into a parserfunction call instead of a tag call? i.e. ? This is because I'm trying to call it like this:

which dosn't work (for known reasons).

It's an excellent piece of work otherwise!

Cheers, --Dmb 18:44, 17 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Dmb - try using it with the tag parser hook like this:


 * Or try Extension:PubmedParser. -- Bovender 07:24, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Good tip about the tag parser hook! I was trying to use within a template. All my citations were rendering as the same list of 4 PMIDs, which I finally figured out were coming from literally passing "" as the PMID . Switching to  worked perfectly. --Quantum7 00:11, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Just installed it on MW 1.15.1
Using PHP 5.2.8 (cgi-fcgi) & MYSQL 4.1.22-max-log. So far so good. Thanks for the awesome extension!!

Pubmed SOAP Web Service Isses
This extension may have the same issue I found with the Biblio extension and described here. Recent changes in the data delivered via the Pubmed SOAP Web Service cause the PHP XML Parser to fail if the character set is not correctly configured. This Nusoap included in this extension distribution may need to be modified. It failed the same way Biblio did when I tested. Both the PHP executabe and Nusoap are effected.

Overlay makes the page unreadable for me
When I open this page in Firefox 13.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.6.8, that green overlay covers all the text, making both of them unreadable. → screenshot of the page

--Thnidu (talk) 19:04, 14 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I changed the layout a bit. Should be better now. Cheers --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 12:46, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Extra whitespace
The HTML comments in these lines seem to be adding empty  elements before and after the references.

$output = "\n"; $output .= $out; $output .= "\n";

Thanks! --Ike @ WikiWorks 22:05, 17 April 2013 (UTC)


 * On second thought, it seems the primary culprit is actually two newlines at the end of file layout_ext.def. --Ike @ WikiWorks 23:05, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Current version
The current version is listed as '2.0 (2011-04-11)', but the changelog contains an update from 2012-01-24. Perhaps the version number should be bumped to make the extension seem slightly less old? --Quantum7 (talk) 22:10, 24 April 2013 (UTC)

Abandoned?
Last I checked, this extension hadn't been updated since 2012. Now the download link (https://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/bibl/system/public/wikiext/) gives a 404 error. Any chance of that being fixed? Should we mark this extension as abandoned and recommend people switch to Extension:PubmedParser? --Quantum7 (talk) 12:08, 19 January 2017 (UTC)

No, still supported
The Extension is still aktiv supported. As noticing a broken link an direct email to me would be nice. The download libnk changed to https://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/bibl/system/wikiext/. Greetings - Andreas