Improving URL citations on Wikimedia

Incomplete and missing citations of web resources are a relatively endemic problem on Wikipedia. There are two major problems to be addressed: This project proposes to extend the support for citing web resources in a similar manner to what has already been done with cite journal.
 * There are many existing cite web citations which are currently incomplete.
 * The relative difficulty and tedium of including web citations provides a barrier to editors properly citing works.

History
The project is a combination of projects proposed in the following area:


 * Better URL to citation conversion functionality
 * Work on RefToolbar
 * Visual Editor plugin
 * Bug 57804

Tools
There are several tools to get around these issues for citations in general:

On WikiMedia

 * Ref toolbar 2.0 (now included on English Wikipedia by default!)
 * Citation Expander Gadget

Third Party

 * Zotero (browser extension)
 * Reference me (smartphone app that scans barcodes for ISBN)
 * Cite4Wiki (browser extension)

Cite Web Bot
A bot that would add titles to cite web CS1 style citations with the C1 title missing error.

Making adding URL citations easier
As originally proposed on the raw projects page, a a full URL-to could be developed to support web citations in the way the citations with a DOI are currently supported. Such a project may include:

Bot-filled cite URL template
A bot filled template for web citations, similar to what already exists for DOIs and PMIDs.

RefToolbar 2.0 cite web autofilling
Add autofilling to RefToolbar 2.0 for citing websites, such as what is currently provided for DOIs and PMIDs.

Adding functionality to visual editor
The Visual Editor team is currently working on replicating the current functionality for citations provided both by the bot-filled templates and the RefToolbar 2.0 in the Visual Editor. Support for URL/cite web autofilling could also be added.