WMF Citoid
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Operated by Wikimedia Foundation
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Citoid is a Wikimedia service in VisualEditor that generates citations from URLs, DOIs, and ISBNs, relying on the Zotero Translation Server (see wikimedia-zotero) for accurate metadata, processed on demand from website visitors.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Citoid/WMF
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control WMF Citoid:
Allow full access
User-agent: Citoid/WMF
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Citoid/WMF
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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