Topic on Talk:Citoid

The ability to fetch metadata from Wikidata by specifying only a QID is great, but please can we also have this in the wikicode editor?

You can currently do this in refToolBar as well by putting the QID or the full wikidata url in the url field and pressing the "search" eyeglass button.

Unfortunately in terms of having a dedicated QID field in refToolBar, this first requires the citation templates on en wiki to add a QID parameter.

Thank you. Yes, that works - but is undocumented, and counter-intuitive.

It's been available rom the start in the 2017 wikitext editor. If you mean the 2010 wikitext editor, that's generally not getting new features, including not getting the automatic citations ("citoid") tool. There are locally hacky gadgets on a few wikis that try to replicate that; if you're using one of those, you should ask whoever is supporting that gadget to extend their tool if it doesn't Just Work™ already.

I mean the 2010 editor, on en.Wikipedia. I have no idea who maintains it.

There is no automatic citation feature in the 2010 editor. You're talking about the refToolBar (default) gadget, which is not supported by the Foundation (as it's a gadget). Looking at the history, most of the recent work has been by the wonderful @Writ Keeper and @TheDJ, and @Kaldari and @Krinkle (in personal capacities). The gadget's talk page on the English Wikipedia is probably the best place to suggest feature changes. Sorry that this is so confusing. :-(

Thank you; done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:RefToolbar#QID_support