How did CiteIt come about? Learning HTML in College During college, I took an interest in teaching myself Html. When I first took Computer Science classes, the University did not teach Html. That was something I did myself using Html tutorials … [Read more]
How the Web can finally Achieve Missing Features Caused by a “Worse is Better” Strategy
In the 1960s, Ted Nelson envisioned a universal hypertext system called Xanadu that was much more sophisticated than today's web. Xanadu was carefully designed to achieve the entirety of Nelson's vision in an elegant way. Xanadu was what Richard P. … [Read more]
Understanding the Python Webservice
Here's a brief overview of the Python webservice's code: Main citeit-webservice/app/app.py def post_url(): url = URL(url_string) saved_citations = [] # Get all citations on this page # This can be optimized with a map function … [Read more]
Adding CiteIt to an Existing Page
I've proposed that Wikipedia upgrade its quotes to contextual citations. Summary: This article describes what changes need to be undertaken to upgrade a Wikipedia page's citations: add the javascript and css to the head wrap the quotes in … [Read more]
Using the CiteIt.net WordPress Plugin
Video Transcript (draft) Hello, this is Tim Langeman, creator of CiteIt.net. PROBLEM Today with accusations about Fake News circulating widely, many readers suffer under a constant suspicion that any quotation they've read may have been taken … [Read more]
How to use the CiteIt.net WordPress Plugin to Create Contextual Citations
Here's a new video describing how to use the WordPress plugin: Get WordPress Plugin Video Transcript (draft) Hello, this is Tim Langeman, creator of CiteIt.net. PROBLEM Today with accusations about Fake News circulating … [Read more]
Adding Contextual Citations to the Internet Archive
Upgrading Print Archives What would it take to add contextual citations to the Internet Archive's print archives? Citing Document @ The Internet Archive Take for example a quote from Political Economy (1883) "Omitting the capital which a … [Read more]
Using Google Text Fragments to Link to Specific Text
You may occasionally notice that the links that you click on deliver you partway down a webpage to a highlighted piece of text. This is the result of Google Text Fragments -- a feature introduced to Chrome (and available as a Firefox extension) … [Read more]
Using Contextual Citations with Non-Web Sources
Joe Germuska responded to my question: https://twitter.com/JoeGermuska/status/1422562200288387078 My response: Non-Web or non-HTML sources are challenges for CiteIt. There are several approaches for dealing with this: Granted, It may not … [Read more]
Parsing Wikipedia Articles with pywikibot
One of my goals is to "upgrade" all English-language citations to CiteIt's Contextual Citations. This will involve: loading all Wikipedia articles finding all footnotes locating the URL corresponding to each footnoted source locating … [Read more]
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