Create ready-to-use Wikipedia citations from a series of inputs
Project description
wikicite
Installation
pip install wikicite
Usage
Command line tool to create ready-to-use Wikipedia citations from a series of inputs.
$ wikicite news bbc -t 'An Important Article' -a Fred Bloggs -d 01062020 -url http://www.bbc.co.uk/an-important-article
<ref name=Bloggs200601>
{{cite news |last=Bloggs |first=Fred |title=An Important Article |work=[[BBC]] |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/an-important-article |date=1 June 2020 |access-date=28 January 2023}}
</ref>
Where any options are not specified, the user will be prompted to add them, but all except date are optional. A note on formatting for certain options:
- Titles
-t
or--title
should be provided in quotation marks - Authors
-a
or--author
should be provided as<firstname> <lastname>
. Where multi-part names are needed, quotation marks should be used to identify the parts, e.g.Lynn 'Faulds Wood'
or'John Paul' Jones
- Dates
-d
or--date
should be provided inddmmyyyy
format
For a full list of options, see
$ cite --help
For more details on Wikipedia citations please see Wikipedia
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