# Tech Talk - Automated citations in Wikipedia - Citoid and the technology behind it

IRC: #wikimedia -office

Speaker:

Sebastian Karcher (Karcher is the Associate Director of the Qualitative Data Repository at Syracuse University.)

Summary: The talk provides a very brief introduction to Marielle Volz's Citoid, the tool providing Wikipedia's new automated citations.I then focus on the technology underlying Citoid, Zotero translators, and discuss how interested users/developers can help improve that functionality to better serve the Wikipedia community.

Helpful links:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid/Zotero%27s_Tech_Talk

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Download Zotero

https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/scaffold

http://www.sebastiankarcher.com/linklist/

https://github.com/zotero/translators/

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- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2016
- Runtime: 57 min
- By: MediaWiki
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tech_Talk_-_Automated_citations_in_Wikipedia_-_Citoid_and_the_technology_behind_it.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: MediaWiki
- Who can watch: Tweens 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/47303623?play=1)