Re: Getting Citations in Wikipedia page to convert over to HTML, Docx, LaTeX.

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

You might have better luck converting the HTML version of the
wikipedia page.  See
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pandoc-discuss/ptiLha5vJ2I/bPJvyLw0BAAJ


John McCorkle <jmco67-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> I need to convert a Wikipedia page I wrote, to HTML and to either LaTex or 
> Docx.
> I go to the page here 
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JohnM7190/John%27s_Noise_Figure_Page), 
> click on the "edit source" tab, select and copy the source text, and then 
> click on the "read" tab so I don't risk actually editing anything. I paste 
> that text into Notepad++ and use several regular expression search/replace 
> operations to eliminate the <NumBlk blah blah /NumBlk> styles (since Pandoc 
> does not recognize them), but keeps the equation and the equation reference 
> number they contain plus fixes the {{EquationNote|x}}  references to those 
> equations. That gets saved, UTF-8 encoded, as my source.wiki file. Pandoc 
> converts my source.wiki file to all three output formats pretty well except 
> the citations don't come across.
>
> Can someone please tell me how to modify the citations in my source.wiki 
> file so the citations get converted properly (i.e. both first use of the 
> citation, and additional references to the same citation), and end up 
> listed at the end of the article the same way they do on the Wikipedia page?
>
> For example, on first use, one of my citations is:
> <ref name="Peebles457">{{Cite 
> book|url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/105963|title=Communication system 
> principles|last=Peebles|first=Peyton 
> Z.|date=1976|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=|isbn=|location=Reading, 
> MA|pages=457}}</ref>
>
> and then other references to it are:
> <ref name="Peebles457" />
>
> There are several types of references, like
>
> <ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Friis|first=H. T.|date=July 
> 1944|title=Noise Figures of Radio Receivers|url=|journal=Proceedings of the 
> IRE|volume=32|issue=7|pages=419–422|doi=10.1109/JRPROC.1944.232049|issn=0096-8390|via=}}[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1695024]</ref>
>
> <ref name="IEC_Spot_NF">{{Cite 
> web|url=http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&ievref=702-08-57|title=IEC 
> 60050 - International Electrotechnical Vocabulary - IEV number 702-08-57: 
> "spot noise factor (of a linear two-port device); spot noise figure (of a 
> linear two-port device)"|last=|first=|date=September 
> 2018|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|accessdate=2019-12-29}}</ref>
>
> <ref name="Fisk">{{Cite journal|last=Fisk|first=James R.|date=Oct 
> 1975|title=Receiver Noise Figure Sensitivity and Dynamic Range - What The 
> Numbers 
> Mean|url=http://www.electronicsandbooks.com/eab3/manual/Magazine/H/Ham%20Radio%20Magazine%20US/Ham%20Radio%20Magazine%201975/10%20October%201975.pdf|journal=Ham 
> Radio|volume=|pages=8-25, pg. 12|via=}}</ref>
>
> Then Wikimedia automatically numbers these and puts them all at the end of 
> the article with the command:
> {{Reflist}}
>
> Is there some format I could convert these citations to, e.g. using regular 
> expressions, so that Pandoc would convert them properly? And is there 
> something I can use to replace the {{Reflist}} command?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help! 
>
>
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