
QWiki-Cite by David Palmer
Instantly generate a Wikipedia citation template for the current website.
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About this extension
This browser button helps you quickly generate a detailed {{cite web}} citation template to use on Wikipedia.
Please submit bugs or feature requests on Github.
- grabs metadata from the current browser page including title, author, site name, published date, etc
- instantly generates a formatted {{cite web}} template to use on Wikipedia
- quick button click to grab a minified and escaped version of the template to paste into Wikipedia
- you can manually make adjustments to the template
- checks the Wayback Machine for the most-recent archive to populate the archive-url and archive-date fields
Please submit bugs or feature requests on Github.
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Required permissions:
- Access browser tabs
- Access your data for all websites
Optional permissions:
- Access your data for archive.org
- Access your data for web.archive.org
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- Version
- 2.1.0
- Size
- 1.6 MB
- Last updated
- a month ago (Jul 9, 2025)
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- License
- GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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Release notes for 2.1.0
- adds support for the 'via' template field for websites that are not themselves the publisher, but which hold other published works, for example PapersPast or PressReader
- improve support for a number of commonly-cited websites in New Zealand
- preserve middle names of authors if they are detected, including initials
- automatically request a save of a cited page at the Internet Archive, if one does not already exist
- show an indicator when retrieving/capturing archives
- upgrade to webextension Manifest V3
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