Last modified: 2014-01-15 12:35:25 UTC
The "Cite Journal" template in the Wikipedia editing toolbar (at least the one I see) is not working properly all of a sudden (I don't know how long this has been going on, since I don't think I've used in a month or so). If one clicks "Cite Journal", the "Cite Book" template pops up instead! It is missing all of the critical ingredients of the "Cite Journal" template, like PMID number, DOI number, and so forth. I tried to make some manual adjustments after I filled in the fields in the "Cite Book" template that in now the only one available, but it's still not working correctly. Even odder is the fact that though the edit toolbar clearly titles the template "Cite Book" (instead of the "Cite Journal" requested), when one clicks "add citation", the resulting citation text reads <ref>{{cite journal}}</ref>, even though it's clearly not and doesn't have the normal journal fields. Anyway, this is really really frustrating for those of us citing medically related articles, and so forth. BTW, I've checked this on Chrome and on IE, and it's the same glitch on both. Can someone please restore the "Cite Journal" template to its former correct state, complete with the proper name, and the PMID number field, DOI number field, and so forth? Thank you.
*** Bug 60061 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 60063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please don't open multiple reports for the same bug in the future, even if you're not sure which component it belongs under.
Also, this works fine for me. What browser did you experience this with?
Hi Cathcart555, unfortunately this report is not very useful because it does not describe the problem well. If you have time and can still reproduce the problem, please read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug and add a more useful description to this report by providing browser information plus a web link / URL where this problem can be seen. Also, could you please open the Error Console (or whatever it is called in your browser) and reload the page that you see the problem on? If there is a problem or an error with JavaScript it should be printed in that console. For more information please see: * Firefox ≥24: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Web_Console * Internet Explorer: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/dn255006 * Google Chrome: https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/ * Apple Safari: https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/Safari_Developer_Guide/PrototypingYourWebsite/PrototypingYourWebsite.html * Opera: http://help.opera.com/Linux/12.10/en/errorconsole.html
This seems to be also asked in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#.22Cite_Journal.22_template_shortcut_on_Edit_Toolbar_not_working_properly and another user could not reproduce there either. Closing as WORKSFORME (for general information, issues in the code of a template itself should be reported on the Template's talk page instead).
