Wikipedia Citation Templates; a deprecated field still included by Zotero

fusion809

Hi,

This time I have something real to discuss that I suspect you'll want to change, as it isn't my personal preferences this time it's the fact Zotero is now using a deprecated citation parameter (namely the |coauthors= field) for generating Wikipedia Citation Templates (WCTs). If you'd like to verify this statement see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:CS1_errors/Archive_1#Why_was_coauthors_field_deprecated.3F_Can_it_be_undeprecated.3F.

Besides the coauthors field generation by Zotero has a few problems in that its style is inconsistent with the rendering that WCTs gives to the first author (i.e., the author mentioned in the |first=|last= fields). See the authors, in the final rendered template, is formatted as first, last; coauthors but Zotero formats the coauthors field as:
first2 last2, first3 last3 which makes the styles of the first author's name and the coauthors names inconsistent with each other. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fuse809/sandbox10 for an example of how they're supposed to be rendered, as opposed to how Zotero-made WCTs are rendered.

adamsmith

so how should this look?

fusion809

Well the citation templates should include the coauthors in numbered last & first fields instead, such as:


|last2 =
|first2 =
|last3 =
|first3 =
|last4 =
|first4 =
|last5 =
|first5 =
.
.
.
|last(n) =
|first(n) =


aurimas

Should be updated now (along with the changes discussed in the other thread). Update your translators via Preferences -> General -> Update Now.

Thanks for reporting!