Screencast: inserting a citation in a Wikipedia article: transcript

Key points

• The example edits an article about a German chef, adding a sentence that her restaurant looks back on 500 years of history, sourced from the Michelin Guide website.
• Clicking the cite button in the edit toolbar opens a menu for choosing the type of citation.
• The automatic citation option works with a website address or a book's ISBN number.
• Pasting the web address and clicking generate creates a citation with title, site name, language and today's retrieval date.
• After inserting the citation and publishing the changes with an edit summary, the reference appears as number one.
• Hovering over the reference shows a pop-up, and the full entry is added automatically to the references section.

Chapters

1. 0:00Choosing the article and adding the sentence
2. 1:07Using the automatic citation tool
3. 2:12Publishing and checking the reference

Full transcript

0:00Hello, this is Ich Du Nicht and now I'm going to show you how to add a reference to Wikipedia article. I chose the article about the German chef Du Steiner and I researched some information about her restaurant in the Guide Michelin website, which I found on this page. so to add the information I hit the edit button and I want to add that the Hirschen restaurant is looking back on a history of 500 years so this is the sentence I add so now I'm going to add a reference for this information to that

1:07end I click on site in the edit toolbar And there's a small menu opening where I can choose which kind of citation I'm going to add. The easiest is to use the automatic citation. You can use that whenever you quote from a website where you have a URL or if you're using a book where you can use the ISBN number which is specific to any published book. and in this case it's a website and i copy the url and insert it into that shoot window and then i hit generate and the software will automatically generate the citation which reads like this hirschen egit michelin restaurant michelin guide in german because it's a german website retrieved today so the date from today and this is all fine so therefore I hit insert and the

2:12reference is created and in order to save that I hit publish changes now I need to describe what I just changed and information and I press publish changes and now I can see the reference which pops up as number one here. If I hover over that with my mouse I can see the reference in a pop-up window and if I scroll down the page I can see it appearing here in the reference section.

2:51So this is also done automatically by the website. This is how you insert a reference.

Source and licence

Recording: File:Insertcitation.webm by Ichdunich (2020-05-22), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. The transcript, summary and chapters on this page are shared under the same licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The transcript is machine speech-to-text by the TidyTools Audio & video transcriber; the summary, key points and chapters were written by Claude from that transcript. Both may contain errors: check the recording before quoting it.