Extension:CiteThisPage


 *  See also the  extension, which is unrelated to this, but used to live in the same repository as CiteThisPage. 

The CiteThisPage extension, previously known as SpecialCite.php, is an extension that creates a special page (Special:CiteThisPage) and toolbox link to it for pages in the main namespace.

Given an article name, this extension generates citations to it in a variety of styles.

Example
English Wikipedia:

w:Special:CiteThisPage/Train provides citation info about the article Train, in the format specified by the local English MediaWiki file w:MediaWiki:Citethispage-content

Each normal page (current version only) has a sidebar link to that special page, in addition to the link "permanent link".

The citing style it uses is customizable from the MediaWiki namespace (MediaWiki:Citethispage-content), for instance:

Might produce:


 * Main Page (last modified 02:47, 26 November 2005 UTC). Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 21:14, 26 November 2005 from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&oldid=10403

Variables
The parser variables e.g.  ,  August  etc. will display the time of the last edit to the requested page, to get the current time use , e.g. <tvar|4><citation ></citation></>.