User:Benjamin Mako Hill/Zotero integration

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Installing AcaWiki Summary CSL

You'll need to have Zotero installed first. Once you've done that, here's how to install and use it:

1. Download acawiki.csl.
2. Add the CSL file to Zotero:
   1. Open Zotero.
   2. Click on the gear icon.
   3. Click on Preferences.
   4. Click on the Styles icon in the preferences dialog.
   5. Click on the + button.
   6. Find the file you have downloaded on your local disk drive and click Open.
3. Add the style as an export default for AcaWiki:
   1. From within the preferences dialog (see above), click the Export icon.
   2. Click on the + button.
   3. Type acawiki.org in the box under Domain/Path.
   4. Select AcaWiki Summary in the button box under Output Format'.

Using AcaWiki Summary CSL

Using AcaWiki Summary CSL is easy but it means you shouldn't create things with a normal Post A Summary link. Instead, you should create a page the old fashioned way:

1. Check to make sure the article you want to create doesn't exist yet!
2. Navigate to a page of the form "http://acawiki.org/My_article_title_here" except use the actual title.
   • You can use spaces instead of underscores (the wiki will convert them).
   • What I do is just type "acawiki.org/" in my URL bar and then paste the title of the article out of Zotero into the URL bar. That seems to work!
3. You will be taken to a page that says There is currently no text in this page. There will be a link on that page that says, edit this page. Click on that link!
4. You will see a big blank text box. Now just drag your post out of Zotero into the box. It should automatically paste in a properly formatted AcaWiki summary template.
5. Edit the template as you see fit.
6. Either paste in the summary after |summary= or click Save. In a two step process, you can then click the Edit link to edit and add the summary.
7. Rinse. Repeat.