Standard way to deal with missing translator icon?

leehach

Looking to add an old Wired Magazine article (http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html), but no translator icon. Using Zotero 4.0.23 + Firefox 34.0 on Linux (Mint 17). While I would like to add this specific article, is the missing translator icon always site-specific? Is there a standard way to deal with this, or is the solution just manual add?

adamsmith

You should make sure you you have Zotero 4.0.24, but yes, missing translator icons are indeed always site specific. You can right-click --Zotero--> Create New Web Page Item from Current page to manually add.

The only alternatives are to write a site translator or to convince Wired to add metadata to their page (which is unlikely to be successful for non-academic publications like wired. Often works for academic sites, though):
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/exposing_metadata

leehach

Although I've been using Zotero for a while, I seem to have missed the right-click trick to add a web page without a translator. Obviously, not much metadata is prepopulated, but enough to get a simple entry started. Thanks.