MediaWiki Integration

chadarizona

I'm thinking about writing my Doctoral Dissertation using a wiki (MediaWiki) so that I could allow for easier collaboration among my committee members, allow for input from others, etc.

Is there a plugin or other way to integrate my Zotero citations into my wiki, similar to the way that I can integrate citations in OpenOffice? I love Zotero, and it has been a huge timesaver up to this point, but I would love to be able to integrate it with MediaWiki.

Any thoughts?

noksagt

You can setup your copy of MediaWiki to make use of citation templates, a'la Wikipedia & use Zotero's Wikipedia citation template export.

ahoward

This could be helpful.

Zotero and Wikipedia

meliwm15

Mediawiki recommend citoid. This, however, works using the Zotero API and relies on you knowing the URL of the reference. Not easy but it works

opensourcethought

@ahoward that link is now broken, but here's the article:
https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/zotero_and_wikipedia

opensourcethought

This is how you can just manually export from Zotero into a Wikipedia friendly format and paste it into the article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources_with_Zotero

meliwm15

Are we sure we actually want Zotero to glean WikiPedia? It's not exactly renowned for fact-checking