Style Request: Wikipedia Citation Template

I am aware that there is already an export translator for wikipedia in Zotero: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/59518/how-to-edit-wikipedia-citation-templates-style

These translators don't work with other CSL apps (https://citationstyles.org/; e.g., PaperPile). Converting the export translation into a .csl seems possible (even though some .csl might not be flexible enough—https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/797; it should be possible to adapt the Vancouver style https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal)

The citation templates are all available on Wikipedia, with the journal ones being most important for robust citations by those who use Zotero/Papers/Paperpile etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal
  • Since Zotero already supports this and has for many years, you should ask the developers of whatever other software you want to use for this.
  • Speaking from the CSL end, we don't think using CSL for metadata formats is a good choice and wouldn't accept such a style. (I know there is bibtex for legacy reasons, but we'd prefer if that didn't exist either)
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