QWiki-Cite by David Palmer

Instantly generate a Wikipedia citation template for the current website.

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You'll need Firefox to use this extension

About this extension

This browser button helps you quickly generate a detailed {{cite web}} citation template to use on Wikipedia.

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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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