User:Isaac (WMF)/citation finder

What?

Insert search icons that are a direct link to an API result for where else a given citation appears on Wikipedia.

How?

This uses a special-purpose API that holds a snapshot of all Wikipedia citations as indexed by their title, URL, doi, and ISBN. It currently depends on a number of heuristics to extract this information in place of a true database of citations, but gives a sense of the benefits of putting more structure around citations. Example request: [1]. Optionally you can use page_title instead of page_id. You can also leave out the citation_id to retrieve all citations: [2]

To install, simply go to Special:MyPage/common.js for just English and put {{subst:Lusc|User:Isaac_(WMF)/citation_finder.js}} // [[User:Isaac_(WMF)/citation_finder.js]] or meta:Special:MyPage/global.js for all available languages and place mw.loader.load( '//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Isaac_(WMF)/citation_finder.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' ); at the bottom of the page.

You should then notice search icons added before references on articles that link to the API results.

Who?

Developed by Isaac (WMF) but heavily based on CiteUnseen.

Where?

The source code is available at User:Isaac (WMF)/citation finder.js