Wikipedia:ProveIt

For the responsibility for providing citations, seeWikipedia:Verifiability § Responsibility for providing citations.

ProveIt

Original author(s)	Kurt Luther Matthew Flaschen Terris Johnson Amy Bruckman Andrea Forte Christopher Jordan seemw:ProveIt#Credits
Developer(s)	Sophivorus
Repository	gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/gadgets/ProveIt
Written in	JavaScript,CSS
Type	MediaWiki Gadget
License	CC BY-SA 3.0andGPLv2
Website	www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ProveIt

ProveIt(/ˈpruːvɪt/) is agadgetthat makes it easy to find, edit, add, and citereferenceswhen editing Wikipedia articles. Referencing is a key task at Wikipedia, but the process is often difficult because the citation templates (such asTemplate:Cite book) are complex. ProveIt simplifies the process by adding a smart and simple graphical user interface when editing any article. You deal with the interface, and ProveIt deals with the wikitext.

ProveIt lists every single ref tag on the page. For configured templates, ProveIt fetches the parameters from TemplateData to create a form to update existing or add new ref tags with such templates. ProveIt can also auto-fill a citation from an URL usingm:Web2Cit,a collaborative database of configurations to fine-tune Citoid, VisualEditor's citation generation service.

You can enable the gadget by going to theEditingsection under thegadgets tab in your preferences,or you can try first editing a real page with a demo by clickinghere.

In addition, anyone using the source editor, even unregistered users, can add&withJS=MediaWiki:Gadget-ProveIt.js&withCSS=MediaWiki:Gadget-ProveIt.cssat end of a URL when editing page to activate ProveIt or&withJS=MediaWiki:Gadget-ProveIt-classic.js&withCSS=MediaWiki:Gadget-ProveIt-classic.cssto activate the classic version.

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  ProveIt minimized.
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  The reference list.
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  Editing a reference.
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  Loading a reference via the Citoid service.
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  After a reference has been loaded via Citoid.

Contribute

If you found a bug or would like to request a feature, you can do so in thetalk page.

Please visit thecentral documentation page at MediaWiki.orgfor more info.

Userbox

If you find the gadget useful and would like to help spread it, you can add the ProveItuserboxto your user page with{{User ProveIt}}.Doing so will also add you to theCategory:Wikipedians who use ProveIt.

This user simplifies Wikipedia referencing withProveIt.