Topic on Talk:Citoid

Summary by Sasuke Sarutobi

FDMS4 provided link to troubleshooter, which contained the information required to build support.

Sasuke Sarutobi (talkcontribs)

Citoid is currently unable to automatically fetch citation information from URLs for the London Gazette, which is the UK newspaper of record. Looking at a sample article, I suspect that it may be that a lot of the metadata for the article itself is in the body of the page, rather than the head, but it is tagged as metadata.

For example, https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35586/page/2475 contains the metadata section of:

<dl class="metadata" id="pdf-description">
                                 <dt>Publication date:</dt>
                                 <dd>
                                    <time datetime="1942-06-05">5 June 1942</time>
                                 </dd>
                                 <dt>Issue:</dt>
                                 <dd id="issue-number">35586</dd>
                                 <dt class="page-number">Page:</dt>
                                 <dd id="page-number">2475</dd>
                              </dl>

Publication date, issue number, and page number are pretty much the only details needed; the publication (The London Gazette) can be trivially inferred from the URL, and there are no author details to fill. These can be passed either to cite news / cite magazine, or there is a London Gazette template on en-wiki (which is an implementation of cite magazine).

Would adding support for London Gazette articles be technically possible?

FDMS4 (talkcontribs)
Sasuke Sarutobi (talkcontribs)

Thank you! I hadn't spotted that section when scanning through the page, so I'll give Citoid/Creating Zotero translators a go at the weekend and see if I can set up a translator for it.