Talk:Citoid/2020

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Hi. I'm getting this error with Citoid and I can't figure out what's wrong. I checked the instructions on the extension page and the suggestions didn't change anything, except the API says:

{

   "batchcomplete": "",
   "pages": {}


} Reception123 (talk) 06:33, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

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How can the citoid service use https without referencing SSL certificates in the node server?

My wiki uses https. Thus, it seems that I need to set wgCitoidServiceUrl to also use https.

When I use https $wgCitoidServiceUrl, I get an ssl error. If I run "curl hxxps://localhost:1970/?doc" on the server, I get:

curl: (35) error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number

Looking into the app.js code, it doesn't look like it has any functionality to use https, so I don't understand how this can possibly work. If I modify app.js to create a server using require('https') instead of 'http', and pass an additional parameter to my certificate and key when createServer() is called, then it works fine.

Surely I must be missing something since I'm sure many implementations have this working over https. Could anyone help clarify?

Also, it's a bit unclear in the instructions, but I assume that $wgCitoidServiceUrl needs to be set to use the actual server name and not localhost, since the connection seems to be made client-side (e.g. $wgCitoidServiceUrl = "hxxps://mywiki.org:1970/api")?

Thanks for any advice in advance. Chrishel (talk) 02:00, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

You might get more help if you copy this post to the MediaWiki Project:Support desk. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 23:01, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Just to follow up with this, I did get this working by manually setting up stunnel to open a new https port to tunnel requests to citoid over http. Here's the gist of what I did:

Install stunnel

sudo apt-get install stunnel4

Create a stunnel configuration file for citoid:

sudo nano /etc/stunnel/citoid.conf

Add the following block to the end of the file:

cert = /path/to/certificates/fullchain.pem

key = /path/to/certificates/privkey.pem

[citoid]

accept = 1971

connect = 1970

Restart stunnel

sudo systemctl restart stunnel4.service

(Optionally) configure stunnel to start automatically

sudo nano /etc/default/stunnel4

Add new line with ENABLED=1 above line with FILES directive. Save and close the file. Chrishel (talk) 03:26, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

I tried in your way but in the site at "localhost:1971/?doc", site cannot GET anyway. How can I solve that problem? 1.229.241.11 (talk) 20:25, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Are there any easier ways of adding sources to Citoid/Zotero?

Hello folks,

Looking at Citoid#Troubleshooting the citoid service, are there any other ways editors could contribute appropriate citation information to integrate into Citoid? Pushing non-technical contributors to this isn't likely to get many results... :-) Ed ^{[talk] [en:majestic titan]} 05:34, 25 September 2020 (UTC)

The metadata is scraped either directly from the website or from an external database (i.e. crossref) so it is indeed quite technical. We do have a few community members who contribute to the zotero repository but as far as I know it's in the singe digits :). You can report problems either on Phabricator (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/citoid/) or directly to the translators repo, but handling of reported issues is quite slow. Mvolz (WMF) (talk) 09:04, 25 September 2020 (UTC)