Localize Wikipedia export output

[stakats]

It turns out that Wikipedia's citation format varies from locale to locale. Ideally they would allow one locale (i.e. English) to work everywhere, but they don't. For the French version, see:
​http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Ouvrage

It may be worth pushing contacts at Wikipedia on this front, because it's madness to expect localizing this formatting for every language. It makes sense to have a local version, but it also makes sense to have a universal version.

[omegatron]

It would make even more sense to use a dedicated reference database, but we don't. :-) (See ​http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicat for an attempt)

For a proposal to allow one citation template to be used across all language wikis, see ​http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4547

[dstillman]

Milestone 2.0 Beta 3 deleted