# How Web2Cit works

Web2Cit is a tool to improve the capacity of Wikipedia's automatic citation generator, by collaboratively defining procedures to extract citation metadata from web sources. In this video we explain how Web2Cit works.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 2022
- Runtime: 5 min
- By: Diegodlh
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_Web2Cit_works.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Diegodlh
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/117771758?play=1)