Extension:CiteThisPage

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

This extension comes with MediaWiki 1.25 and above. Thus you do not have to download it again. However, you still need to follow the other instructions provided.

MediaWiki extensions manualManual:Extensions

CiteThisPage Release status:Extension status stable
ImplementationTemplate:Extension#type	Special page
DescriptionTemplate:Extension#description	Adds a special page that provides different citation formats for a particular article
Author(s)Template:Extension#username	Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason James D. Forrester
Latest versionTemplate:Extension#version	continuous updates
MediaWikiTemplate:Extension#mediawiki	1.24+
PHPTemplate:Extension#php	5.3+
Database changesTemplate:Extension#needs-updatephp	No
LicenseTemplate:Extension#license	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
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Hooks usedTemplate:Extension#hook SkinTemplateBuildNavUrlsNav_urlsAfterPermalinkManual:Hooks/SkinTemplateBuildNavUrlsNav_urlsAfterPermalink BaseTemplateToolboxManual:Hooks/BaseTemplateToolbox
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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.

Installation

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called CiteThisPage in your extensions/ folder.
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

  wfLoadExtension( 'CiteThisPage' );
  

• Y Done - Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

To users running MediaWiki 1.24 or earlier:

The instructions above describe the new way of installing this extension using wfLoadExtension() If you need to install this extension on these earlier versions (MediaWiki 1.24 and earlier), instead of wfLoadExtension( 'CiteThisPage' );, you need to use:

require_once "$IP/extensions/CiteThisPage/CiteThisPage.php";

Example

English Wikipedia:

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

* ''{{FULLPAGENAME}}'' (last modified {{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} UTC).
 {{SITENAME}}, {{int:sitesubtitle}}. Retrieved <citation>{{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
 {{CURRENTYEAR}}</citation> from {{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|oldid={{REVISIONID}}}}

Might produce:

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

Variables

The parser variables e.g. {{CURRENTTIME}}, {{CURRENTMONTH}} etc. will display the time of the last edit to the requested page, to get the current time use <citation>, e.g. <citation>{{CURRENTTIME}}</citation>.