Wikipedia:ProveIt

ProveIt

Original author(s)	Kurt Luther Matthew Flaschen Terris Johnson Amy Bruckman Andrea Forte Christopher Jordan see mw:ProveIt#Credits
Developer(s)	Sophivorus
Repository	gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/gadgets/ProveIt
Written in	JavaScript, CSS
Type	MediaWiki Gadget
License	CC BY-SA 3.0 and GPLv2
Website	www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ProveIt

ProveIt (/ˈpruːvɪt/) is a gadget that makes it easy to find, edit, add, and cite references when editing Wikipedia articles. Referencing is a key task at Wikipedia, but the process is often difficult because the citation templates (such as Template: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 using m:Web2Cit, a collaborative database of configurations to fine-tune Citoid, VisualEditor's citation generation service.

You can enable the gadget by going to the Editing section under the gadgets tab in your preferences, or you can try first editing a real page with a demo by clicking here.

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

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

Please visit the central documentation page at MediaWiki.org for more info.

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

This user simplifies Wikipedia referencing with ProveIt.