wikicite

Installation

pip install wikicite

Usage

Command line tool to create ready-to-use Wikipedia citations from a series of inputs.

$ wikicite news bbc -t 'An Important Article' -a Fred Bloggs -d 01062020 -url http://www.bbc.co.uk/an-important-article

<ref name=Bloggs200601>
{{cite news |last=Bloggs |first=Fred |title=An Important Article |work=[[BBC]] |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/an-important-article |date=1 June 2020 |access-date=28 January 2023}}
</ref>

Where any options are not specified, the user will be prompted to add them, but all except date are optional. A note on formatting for certain options:

• Titles -t or --title should be provided in quotation marks
• Authors -a or --author should be provided as <firstname> <lastname>. Where multi-part names are needed, quotation marks should be used to identify the parts, e.g. Lynn 'Faulds Wood' or 'John Paul' Jones
• Dates -d or --date should be provided in ddmmyyyy format

For a full list of options, see

$ cite --help

For more details on Wikipedia citations please see Wikipedia