COinS & Wikipedia

max1836

Use COinS to input reference from Wikipedia. (Geeze this is slick...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendel%27s_theorem

After import the pages field has this: 109 & ndash ; 111

I used some extra spaces no to get html to convert this to dash it should be...

So the HTML tag for a dash is there instead of a dash.

adamsmith

that's a problem at Wikipedia - they're mixing HTML and URL encoding
The COinS is
rft.pages=109%26ndash%3B111
it should be
rft.pages=109%E2%80%93111
in other words, the en-dash should just be URL encoded.
I don't know who to contact there and if this is a general problem with their COinS

aurimas

@adamsmith, do you recall the thread we had about 8 months ago or so about some issues with Wikipedia citations? I think the person contacted someone that takes care of Wikipedia citations. Can't find the thread now though.

adamsmith

yeah, I vaguely recall that. I'll spend some time looking for that later.

max1836

This thread?

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/2866/year-not-imported-from-wikipedia-coins-article/

adamsmith

That's not the one I had in mind, but it leads to here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Citation/core#Removing_COINS_metadata
which looks like COinS is on the way out on WP
I agree that's a terrible idea and several regular posters here have made the point to WP on that page, but so far without success.

aurimas

Looks like we jumped ahead of ourselves here.

This was not an issue with the citation template. The citation was simply entered incorrectly on Wikipedia as 109–111

Edit: Well, actually it's not incorrect. It's just unnecessarily escaped. I'll try to get this fixed on Wiki's end.