Talk:Community Wishlist/Wishes/Improve reFill, make it work with PDFs

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Broader

This should probably be refocused more generally as "improve automatic citation tools" or "improve Citoid" (Citoid is the backend most of these tools rely on). * Pppery * _{it has begun} 20:33, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @Pppery for this feedback. @Trigenibinion, this wish is both too broad and too specific, in asking to "Improve ReFill" and "make it open in a separate browser tab."

Could you add more specifications regarding the challenges you face, and the problems you encounter? From there, we can start to evaluate what a viable solution may look like. JWheeler-WMF (talk) 16:08, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I actually asked NOT to open a new tab. Trigenibinion (talk) 16:16, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

D'oh! I've clearly been reading too many wishes. Still, it's unclear exactly what problems you'd like ReFill to solve beyond UX improvements. Given your other submission re: ProveIt, it sounds like there are some underlying challenges or limitations to how citations work on Wikipedia.. JWheeler-WMF (talk) 16:33, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Yes. I'm not sure if this is what Trigenibinion is going for (this might be a new wish), but see w:WP:AGCR. * Pppery * _{it has begun} 16:54, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

The main problem with reFill is that it does not handle PDFs. Trigenibinion (talk) 17:25, 19 July 2024 (UTC)

Update: the main problem is that it sometimes wrongly replaces specific URLs and titles with generic ones. Trigenibinion (talk) 21:44, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

First of all support the general broad request to improve reFill / the tech reFill is based on. But what do you mean with make it work with PDFs and it does not handle PDFs should the tool download the PDF and then try to identify the title within the document (maybe even using OCR if it's not plain text)? What do you propose in specific regarding PDF sources? Prototyperspective (talk) 14:49, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Issues?

Are there issues for any of these? And if not, I suggest you create them here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/5013/ (with tag tool-refill) and then link them here. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:31, 29 April 2025 (UTC)