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// ==UserScript==
// @name New York Times to Wikipedia Citation
// @namespace Wikipedia
// @description Automatically create a Wikipedia cite news template for any New York Times
// @include http://*.nytimes.com/*
// ==/UserScript==
/*
Description
This Greasemonkey script takes any article page from the NYT and creates a
Wikipedia citation for it.
Due to various formats between blogs, articles and archived items, the location of the
citation button appear in different places at the top of the page.
Edit history
2009-10-22 Creation based on similar script for The BBC.
*/
// Last update
var version='22 October 2009';
// Global variables
var utitle='', uauthor='', usummary='', udate='',
uyear='', uref=''; uurl='', uref='',
now=new Date(), monthNames=new Array(
"January","February","March","April","May","June","July",
"August","September","October","November","December");
var helpText='<p><b>Instructions</b></p>\
<p style=margin-top:0.75em;>The citation above is automatically populated \
based on the New York Times article or blog entry you are currently viewing. \
You can edit the text on this page \
inside the text box. For more help on the citation parameters see \
<a style="font-size:80%" href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_news target=_blank>\
[[template:cite news]]</a> or <a style="font-size:80%" \
href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web target=_blank>\
[[template:cite web]]</a>. Some handy buttons available are:<\p>\
<div style=margin-left:2em;margin-top:0.75em;>\
<input type=button value="Highlight text"> highlight all text ready for cut & paste\
<br><input type=button value="{}"> expand the text for more easily readable layout\
<br><input type=button value="}{"> collapse the text\
<br><input type=button value=«> <input type=button value=»> increase/decrease the size of the edit text box\
<br><input type=button style=color:darkblue; value="<ref>"> wrap the citation with ref tags to \
turn it into a footnote (click twice to remove automatic name)\
<br><input type=button style=color:red; value=Reset> undo all changes\
<br><input type=button style=color:darkblue; value=quote> add a quote (copy part of the article first, then paste it into \
the pop-up box)\
</div>\
<p style=margin-top:0.75em;><i>\
Feedback and bug reporting can be left on my Wikipedia user talk page \
<a style="font-size:80%" href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ash target=_blank>\
[[User talk:Ash]]</a>. \
Before you report a bug check, you have installed the latest version available on \
<a href=http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/60128 target=_blank>userscripts.org</a>.\
</i></p>\
<p style=margin-top:1.5em;color:grey;>Release date of this script: '+version+'</p>';
/**
* Throughout, whitespace is defined as one of the characters
* "\t" TAB \u0009
* "\n" LF \u000A
* "\r" CR \u000D
* " " SPC \u0020
*
* This does not use Javascript's "\s" because that includes non-breaking
* spaces (and also some other characters).
*/
/**
* Determine whether a node's text content is entirely whitespace.
*
* @param nod A node implementing the |CharacterData| interface (i.e.,
* a |Text|, |Comment|, or |CDATASection| node
* @return True if all of the text content of |nod| is whitespace,
* otherwise false.
*/
function is_all_ws( nod )
{
// Use ECMA-262 Edition 3 String and RegExp features
return !(/[^\t\n\r ]/.test(nod.data));
}
/**
* Determine if a node should be ignored by the iterator functions.
*
* @param nod An object implementing the DOM1 |Node| interface.
* @return true if the node is:
* 1) A |Text| node that is all whitespace
* 2) A |Comment| node
* and otherwise false.
*/
function is_ignorable( nod )
{
return ( nod.nodeType == 8) || // A comment node
( nod.nodeType == 3); // a text node
}
/**
* Version of |previousSibling| that skips nodes that are entirely
* whitespace or comments. (Normally |previousSibling| is a property
* of all DOM nodes that gives the sibling node, the node that is
* a child of the same parent, that occurs immediately before the
* reference node.)
*
* @param sib The reference node.
* @return Either:
* 1) The closest previous sibling to |sib| that is not
* ignorable according to |is_ignorable|, or
* 2) null if no such node exists.
*/
function node_before( sib )
{
while ((sib = sib.previousSibling)) {
if (!is_ignorable(sib)) return sib;
}
return null;
}
/**
* Version of |nextSibling| that skips nodes that are entirely
* whitespace or comments.
*
* @param sib The reference node.
* @return Either:
* 1) The closest next sibling to |sib| that is not
* ignorable according to |is_ignorable|, or
* 2) null if no such node exists.
*/
function node_after( sib )
{
while ((sib = sib.nextSibling)) {
if (!is_ignorable(sib)) return sib;
}
return null;
}
/**
* Version of |lastChild| that skips nodes that are entirely
* whitespace or comments. (Normally |lastChild| is a property
* of all DOM nodes that gives the last of the nodes contained
* directly in the reference node.)
*
* @param sib The reference node.
* @return Either:
* 1) The last child of |sib| that is not
* ignorable according to |is_ignorable|, or
* 2) null if no such node exists.
*/
function last_child( par )
{
var res=par.lastChild;
while (res) {
if (!is_ignorable(res)) return res;
res = res.previousSibling;
}
return null;
}
/**
* Version of |firstChild| that skips nodes that are entirely
* whitespace and comments.
*
* @param sib The reference node.
* @return Either:
* 1) The first child of |sib| that is not
* ignorable according to |is_ignorable|, or
* 2) null if no such node exists.
*/
function first_child( par )
{
var res=par.firstChild;
while (res) {
if (!is_ignorable(res)) return res;
res = res.nextSibling;
}
return null;
}
/**
* Version of |data| that doesn't include whitespace at the beginning
* and end and normalizes all whitespace to a single space. (Normally
* |data| is a property of text nodes that gives the text of the node.)
*
* @param txt The text node whose data should be returned
* @return A string giving the contents of the text node with
* whitespace collapsed.
*/
function data_of( txt )
{
var data = txt.data;
// Use ECMA-262 Edition 3 String and RegExp features
data = data.replace(/[\t\n\r ]+/g, " ");
if (data.charAt(0) == " ")
data = data.substring(1, data.length);
if (data.charAt(data.length - 1) == " ")
data = data.substring(0, data.length - 1);
return data;
}
function cnvrt2title(str) {
return str.toLowerCase().replace(/\b\w+\b/g, cnvrt);
function cnvrt() {
if (arguments[arguments.length -2] == 0)
return arguments[0].replace(/^[a-z]/, cnvrt2);
else if (/^(a|about|after|an|and|at|by|for|from|in|into|nor|of|on|onto|over|the|to|up|with|within)$/.test(arguments[0]) )
return arguments[0];
else
return arguments[0].replace(/^[a-z]/, cnvrt2);
}
function cnvrt2() {
return arguments[0].toUpperCase();
}
}
function randomString(n) {
var chars = "abcdefghiklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
var string_length = n;
var randomstring = '';
for (var i=0; i<string_length; i++) {
var rnum = Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length);
randomstring += chars.substring(rnum,rnum+1);
}
return randomstring;
}
function authorSplit(a, fl) { // Attempt to get lastname, first name ordered
a=a.replace(/\s+/g," ");
var myA=a.split(' '), myS='', myF='';
// check for organizations or oddities
if(a.match(/association|organi|inc\.|charity|trust|society|archive|[\(\[\{\,]| (&|&) /i)!==null){
return (fl==1 ? a : myF);
}
// check for nobiliary particles if name is more than one word
if (myA.length>1 && (myA[myA.length-2].match(/^von$|^van$|^de$/i)!==null) && (myA.length<5)) { // Needs expansion
myS=myA[myA.length-2]+' '+myA[myA.length-1];
myF=myA.slice(0,myA.length-2).join(' ');
// check for post-fixes
} else if(myA.length>2 && myA[myA.length-1].match(/^Jr\.?$|^md\.?$/i)!==null){
myS=myA[myA.length-2];
myF=myA.slice(0,myA.length-2).join(' ');
} else if (myA.length<5) {
myS=myA[myA.length-1];
myF=myA.slice(0,myA.length-1).join(' ');
if(myS.replace(/[\.\s]/g,"").length<2){
var swap=myS;
myS=myF;myF=swap;
}
} else {myS=a}; // Skip strangely long names, likely organizations*/
return (fl==1 ? myS : myF);
}
function first_last(a,n){
if(a==''){return};
if(n==1||n==undefined){n=''};
if(authorSplit(a,0)!==''){ // i.e. there's a first name
return " |last"+n+"="+authorSplit(a,1)+" |first"+n+"="+authorSplit(a,0);
}else{
return " |author"+n+"="+a;
}
}
/*
<meta name="proximic_title" content="Hunt for girls after killing of gay man"/>
<meta name="icx_authors" content=""/>
<meta name="icx_byline" content=""/>
<meta name="icx_copyright" content="2009 Independent News Media"/>
<meta name="icx_deckheader" content="A gay man who was attacked by two teenage girls and a young man in a suspected homophobic assault in central London has died."/>
<meta name="icx_headline" content="Hunt for girls after killing of gay man"/>
<meta name="icx_pubdate" content="10/15/2009"/>
<meta name="icx_pubyear" content="2009"/>
<meta name="icx_section" content="Crime"/>
*/
function infoFromPaper() { // *********************
var s = '';
var meta=document.getElementsByTagName('meta');
GM_log("table = "+meta.length);
if(meta!==null && meta.length>3){
var mtitle='', msummary='', mdate='';
for(var i in meta){
switch(meta[i].name){
case "hdl":case "WZ.z_gtn":case "GTN":
if(mtitle==''){mtitle=meta[i].content.replace(/\s/g," ")};
break;
case "Description" : case "DESCRIPTION": case "description" :
msummary=meta[i].content.replace(/"|"/g,"'");
GM_log("usummary = "+msummary);
break;
case "byl":case "WT.z_clmst":case "CLMST":
if(uauthor==''){
uauthor=cnvrt2title(meta[i].content.replace(/^by /i,''));
if(uauthor.length>2){s+=first_last(uauthor,1)};
}
break;
case "DISPLAYDATE":
udate=meta[i].content;
break;
case "pg":
upage=meta[i].content;
break;
case "articleid":
uref=meta[i].content.replace(/\s/g,'');
break;
case "WT.z_pyr": //YYYY
if(uyear==''){uyear=meta[i].content};
break;
case "WT.z_pud": //YYYYMMDD used for archive articles
if(udate==''){udate=meta[i].content};
if(uref==''||uref==uref.replace(/\D/g,'')){ // could be articleid
uref=meta[i].content.replace(/\D/g,"");
}
if(udate.length==8){
udate=udate.substr(6,2)+" "+
monthNames[(udate.substr(4,2))-1]+" "+
udate.substr(0,4);
}
break;
}
}
if(mtitle==''){mtitle=msummary;msummary=''};
if(msummary!==''){usummary=msummary};
utitle=mtitle;
}
var h6=document.getElementsByTagName('h6');
// Get bylines
if(h6!==null && uauthor==''){
for(var i in h6){
switch(h6[i].className){
case "byline":
if(uauthor==''){
uauthor=cnvrt2title(h6[i].innerHTML
.replace(/\s+/g," ").replace(/^( *)by /i,"")
.split(',')[0]
.replace(/\s*$/,"")
.replace(/(\.)(\w)/g,"$1 $2")); // slight format problem with initials
if(uauthor.length>5){s+=first_last(uauthor);i=h6.length};
}
break;
}
}
}
//Prefer blog header in article where exists
//<h2 class="entry-title">Nightmares and Marathons</h2>
var h2=document.getElementsByTagName('h2');
if(h2!==null){
for(var i in h2){
switch(h2[i].className){
case "entry-title":
utitle=h2[i].innerHTML.replace(/<.*?>/g,"");
break;
}
}
}
if(utitle==''){ // default to web page title
utitle=document.getElementsByTagName('title');
utitle=(utitle==null?'':utitle[0].innerHTML).replace(/\|/,"-")
.replace(/the new york times([ ,\.]*)$/i,'')
.replace(/[ ,;-]+$/,'');
}
var accessdate="20"+now.getYear().toString().substr(1)+"-"+
(now.getMonth()>8?now.getMonth()+1:"0"+(now.getMonth()+1))+"-"+
now.getDate();
// Generate uref
if(udate.length>8 && uyear==''){uyear=udate.match(/\d{4}/)};
if(uyear.length<1){uyear=''};
if(authorSplit(uauthor,1).length>2 && udate.length>8 && uref==''){
uref=authorSplit(uauthor,1)+uyear+udate.match(/\d{2}/);
}
if(uref==uref.replace(/\D/g,"") && uref.length>1){
if(authorSplit(uauthor,1).length>2){
uref=authorSplit(uauthor,1)+uref;
}else{
uref="NYT"+uref;
}
}
if(uref==''){uref="NYT"+accessdate.replace(/\D/g,'')};
// Get year
if(udate.match(/\d{4}/)!==null){uyear=udate.match(/\d{4}/)};
// Create output
s+=(udate==''?'':" |date="+udate)+" |title="+utitle+
" |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate="+accessdate;
// Greasemonkey log
GM_log("udate:"+udate+"//utitle:"+utitle+"//uref:"+uref+"//uauthor:"+uauthor);
return s;
}
function sortResult(s){
var ord=new Array("accessdate=","newspaper=","date=","author=","first1?=","last1?=","title="); // Reverse order
for(var i=0;i<ord.length;i++){
if(s.search(ord[i])>0){
var m='\\| ?'+ord[i]+'[^\\|]+';
if(s.match(m)!==null){
var mm=s.match(m)[0];
s=s.replace(/(\{\{cite (news|web) )/,"$1"+mm);
s=s.split(mm)[0]+mm+s.split(mm)[1]+s.split(mm)[2];
}
}
}
return s;
}
function showCitationFromInfo(info, url) {
var s = '{{cite news';
s += info;
s += ' |url=' + url.replace(/\/$/,'') + '}}';
// sort into preferred order
s=sortResult(s);
// Toggle pre-existing citation box
var test=document.getElementById('cite');
if(test!==null){
test.parentNode.parentNode.removeChild(test.parentNode);
with(document.getElementById('myCite').getElementsByTagName('input')[0]){
value="Show citation";
//style.backgroundColor="transparent";
}
} else {
with(document.getElementById('myCite').getElementsByTagName('input')[0]){
value="Hide citation";
//style.backgroundColor="lightblue";
}
// Create citation box buttons
var tb = document.getElementById('citearea'); // insert before this div
var cite=document.createElement('div');
var taRows=parseInt(s.length/70)+1;
var plusRows=0; // How many rows are too long for text box
for(var i=0;i<s.split(' |').length;i++){if(s.split(' |')[i].length>75){++plusRows}};
s.replace(/'/g,"’"); // change single quotes
// Create summary / abstract
var sSummary=s.replace(/}}$/,(usummary!=='' ? " | quote="+usummary+"}}" : "}}"));
var search=utitle.split(':')[0].replace(/\s/g,"+");
var gnews="http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q="+search;
var gyear="&as_user_hdate="+uyear+"&as_user_ldate="+uyear;
var guardian="http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search="+utitle.split(':')[0];
//cite.className='blogs';
cite.innerHTML = '\n<form name=cite id=cite><p style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;">'+
'<span title="Edit and copy citation, useful additional fields include "quote" and "page"">'+
'Wikipedia citation</span> <input style="font-size:8pt" type="button" value="Highlight Text" title="Click to highlight all text for copying" '+
'onClick="javascript:this.form.citation.focus();this.form.citation.select();"> '+
// Newspaper droplist
' \
</SCRIPT>\
<SELECT NAME="droplist" id=droplist style="font-size:8pt;"'+
'title="Search for "'+
utitle.split(':')[0].replace(/[^\w\s]/g,"")+'" at selected site" >\
<OPTION SELECTED="SELECTED" VALUE="'+gnews+'+'+gyear+'">Google News</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="http://www.google.com/search?q='+search+'">Google</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:independent.co.uk'+gyear+'">The Independent</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:timesonline.co.uk'+gyear+'">The Guardian</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:bbc.co.uk'+gyear+'">BBC News</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:telegraph.co.uk'+gyear+'">The Telegraph</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:thesun.co.uk'+gyear+'">The Sun</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:cnn.com'+gyear+'">CNN</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="'+gnews+'+site:nytimes.com'+gyear+'">New York Times</OPTION>\
<OPTION VALUE="http://www.wired.com/search?query='+search+'&siteAlias=all">Wired News</OPTION>\
</SELECT><INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="Go" style="font-size:8pt;" \
ONCLICK="javascript:location.href=this.form.droplist.options[this.form.droplist.selectedIndex].value;">\
'+
'</p>\n'+
'<p style="font-size:8pt;margin-top:2px;margin-bottom:0px;">'+
// +ref button with smart 3 state behaviour
'<input title="Add automatically named reference tags for footnote; click again to remove name" '+
'style="color:darkblue" type="button" value="<ref>" '+
'onClick="javascript:this.form.citation.value='+
'(this.form.citation.value.search(/\\<ref name\\=/)>-1 ? '+
'this.form.citation.value.replace(/(\\<ref) name\\='+uref+' /,"$1")'+ //2nd click
' : (this.form.citation.value.search(/\\<ref( *)>/)>-1 ? '+
'this.form.citation.value.replace(/\\<ref>|<.ref>/g,"")'+ //3rd click
' : this.form.citation.value.replace(/^{{|^\\*{{/,"<ref name='+uref+ //1st click
' >{{").replace(/}}$/,"}}</ref>")))";> '+
// +(optional) summary
(usummary.length>0 ?
'<input title="Add summary of article as quotation" '+
'style="color:darkblue;font-size:8pt" type="button" value="Summary" '+
'onClick="javascript:var v=this.form.citation;if(v.value.match(/quote( *)=/)==null){'+
'v.value=v.value.replace(/}}$/," |quote='+usummary+'}}")};"> '
:'')+
// Add bullet
'<input title="Bullet" style="color:darkblue;font-size:8pt" type="button" value="*" '+
'onClick="javascript:this.form.citation.value='+
'this.form.citation.value.replace(/^{{/,"*{{");"> '+
'<input title="Reset the citation text, wiping out changes" '+ // Reset button
'style="color:red;font-size:8pt" type="button" value="Reset" '+
'onClick="javascript:getElementById("citebox").rows='+taRows+
';this.form.citation.value=\''+s.replace(/'/g,"’").replace(/"/g,""")+'\';getElementById("addfields").style.display=""";> '+
// Text area start
'<p style="font-size:8pt;">'+
'<table><tr><td><textarea style="font-size:9pt;padding:0.5em;border-color:black;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;" rows='+taRows+
' cols=85 name=citation id=citebox>'+s+'</textarea></td>'+
'<td valign=top>'+
'<input title="Reduce size by removing some spaces" '+ // Squeeze
'type="button" value="}{" onClick="javascript:getElementById("citebox").rows='+taRows+
';this.form.citation.value='+
'this.form.citation.value.replace(/\\n*\\s* /g," ")'+
'.replace(/\\n/g,"").replace(/ = /g,"=")'+
'.replace(/\\| /g,"|").replace(/ }}/g,"}}");"> '+
''+
'<input title="Long layout" '+ // Expand
'type="button" value="{}" onClick="javascript:this.form.citation.value='+
'this.form.citation.value.replace(/\\n*\\s*\\|/g,"\\n |").replace(/\\n*\\s*}}/g,"\\n}}")'+
'.replace(/\\?id=/,"idxxx").replace(/\\|(\\w*)=(\\w|\\[)/g,"|$1 = $2").replace(/idxxx/,"?id=");'+
'getElementById("citebox").rows=this.form.citation.value.split(/\\n/).length-1+'+plusRows+';"> '+
'<br>'+
'<input title="Take one row off textbox" '+ // Nudge -1
'type="button" value="«" onClick="javascript:'+
'var r=getElementById("citebox");if(r.rows>1){r.rows-=1};"> '+
'<input title="Add one row to textbox" '+ // Nudge +1
'type="button" value="»" onClick="javascript:'+
'getElementById("citebox").rows+=1;"> '+
'</td></tr></table>\n'+ // Text area end
// +help
'<p style="margin:0px;font-size:8pt;"><input id=showHelp title="Show instructions" '+
'type=button value="Help" '+
'onClick="javascript:var h=getElementById("helpText"),t=this.form.showHelp;'+
'if(t.value=="Help"){'+
'h.style.display=null;'+
't.value="Hide help";t.style.color="red"}else{'+
'h.style.display="none";'+
't.value="Help";t.style.color="black"}'+
';" > '+
'<span id=addfields> Add field: '+
// +author (if no author has been found)
(uauthor==''?
'<input title="Add an author to the citation" '+
'style="color:darkblue" type=button value=author '+
'onClick="javascript:var a=prompt("Author","'+uauthor+'");if(a.length>0){'+
'this.form.citation.value=this.form.citation.value'+
'.replace(/ \\|( *)author[^\\|}]*|(}})$/," |$1author="+a+"$2")}else{'+
'this.form.citation.value=this.form.citation.value.replace(/\\|( *)author[^\\|}]*/,"")};" > ':'')+
// +quotation
'<input title="Add quotation to the citation" style="color:darkblue" type=button value=quote '+
'onClick="javascript:var q=prompt("Quotation");if(q.length>3){this.form.citation.value=this.form.citation.value.replace'+
'(/}}$/," |quote="+q+" }}")};" > '+
'</p></span><div id="helpText" style="display:none"><p><table><tr>'+
'<td style="padding:2em;background-color:#FAFFFF;">'+
helpText+'</td></tr></table></p></div>'+
'</form>';
with(cite.style){
backgroundColor='lightblue';
border='solid black 1px';
padding='8px';
margin='auto';
marginTop='2px';
width='700px';
textAlign='left';
fontSize='8pt';
zIndex='5';
}
tb.parentNode.insertBefore(cite,tb); // Insert before titlebar
}
}
function showCitationFromPage() {
var u = cleanURI();//location.href;
var page = u.split('&')[0];
GM_log('Getting info from '+page);
var info = infoFromPaper();
showCitationFromInfo(info, u);
}
function cleanURI() {
return location.href.split('&')[0].split('?')[0];
}
//Add a main buttons to the top bar
function add_link(text, title, func, id) {
//Check this is an article
if(cleanURI().match(/\//g).length<5||cleanURI().match(/index.html$/g)!==null){return}; // Too high in the hierarchy?
var bar = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
if(bar!==null && bar.length>0){bar=bar[0]}else{
// Could be a strange page with no 'div's
bar=document.getElementsByTagName('table');
if(bar==null||bar.length<1){return}; // Give up if no tables
bar=bar[0];
}
if(document.getElementById('main')!==null){
// preferred area
bar=document.getElementById('main');
}
var link = document.createElement('a');
var citearea=document.createElement('div');
citearea.id="citearea";
link.title = title;
link.innerHTML = text;
link.style.textDecoration = 'none';
link.style.fontSize='5pt';
link.id=id;
link.style.marginLeft='0em';
link.style.float='left';
var dofunc = function(event) {
event.stopPropagation();
event.preventDefault();
func();
};
link.addEventListener('click', dofunc, false);
bar.parentNode.insertBefore(link,bar);
bar.parentNode.insertBefore(citearea,bar);
}
GM_log('Adding link to top');
add_link('<div width=100% style="z-index:10;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;width:716px;\
background-color:transparent;height:10pt;text-align:left;">\
<input type=button value="Show citation" \
style="height:4pt;font-size:6pt;text-decoration:none" \
onmouseover="javascript:;\
this.height="14pt";this.style.fontSize="8pt";this.style.backgroundColor=null;"\
onmouseout="javascript:this.style.fontSize="6pt";this.height="4pt;"">\
</div>',
'Show a Wikipedia formatted citation for this article',
showCitationFromPage,'myCite');
