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Screenshot of ProveIt software.

What is ProveIt?

ProveIt is a user script that makes it really easy to find, edit, add, and cite references in Wikipedia articles.

You can check out our project website: http://proveit.cc.gatech.edu/, featuring a live working demo.

Contributors are welcome. Please post on the talk page or contact Superm401.

How to install

English Wikipedia

Note: If you've already installed ProveIt the old way (editing your ), delete any ProveIt-related code first.

1. Log in to Wikipedia. If you don't have an account, you'll have to create one.
2. Go to your Gadget preferences page.
3. Find ProveIt under the "Editing" heading and check the box beside it.
4. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

That's it! You can start using ProveIt immediately. You can start with or go to any other Wikipedia article and click the Edit tab.

Non-English Wikipedia

Please see our install guide and select your language from the drop-down menu.

Help and problem reports

For help with ProveIt, please check out our user guide and tutorials.

If you experience problems or notice a bug, file a bug report or leave a message on our talk page. You can also submit feedback or provide localizations.

Features and benefits

Easily create, edit, and find references

Use most popular citation formats

• Optimized for one of Wikipedia’s most common citation formats, Cite.
  • In particular, it supports most of the Citation Style 1 templates, along with a few others.
• Supports all major reference types -- some better than others. For instance, Citation templates can be viewed and edited.

There when you need it, gone when you don’t

• Automatically loads when you’re on a Wikipedia edit page, hides when you leave
• Manually show or hide ProveIt with one click

Instantly find the reference you want

• Visualizes all references in a single list
• Easily scannable -- title and icon for ref type
• Click a reference to instantly locate it in the Wikipedia edit box

No need to memorize complex syntax

• Visual interface for adding and editing references
• Shows which fields are required and which are optional
• Add and remove fields with one click

References with multiple citations -- no longer a headache

• Visually groups together multiple citations of a reference under a single heading
• Cite the reference anywhere else in the article with one click

Create valid references and fix ones that aren’t

• Produces clean, valid code every time
• Broken or invalid references are easily identifiable in red

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Easily install, update, and use ProveIt

Free and open source

• Just like Wikipedia itself
• Never costs you anything to use
• Constantly improved by the open source community -- or improve it yourself
• Available under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2), Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 (CC-BY-SA-3.0), and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).

Quick installation

• Just enable the gadget in your preferences! (See above for a step-by-step guide.)

Works anywhere, any browser, all of the time

• Cross-browser compatible: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc.
• Linked to your Wikipedia account, so it shows up as soon as you log in -- no need to install on multiple computers

Automatic updates

• Always loads the latest fixes and features, instantly and automatically -- you do nothing

Userbox

You can optionally put this userbox on your user page to show you use ProveIt:

কোড	ফলাফল	ব্যৱহাৰকৰ্তা সকল
{{Template:User ProveIt}}	এই সদস্যজনে ৱিকিপিডিয়াত উদ্ধৃতি প্ৰদান কৰিবলৈ প্ৰুভ ইট্‌ সঁজুলি ব্যৱহাৰ কৰে।	ইয়াত চাওক

Team and credits

ProveIt is being developed by a team of Wikipedians at Georgia Tech, including Kurt Luther (MaxVeers), Matthew Flaschen (Superm401), Terris Johnson, and Amy Bruckman. However, it's a free and open source software project, so other interested folks are invited to contribute. One way to start is to create a clone of Proveit, which doesn't require any permission. You can then file an issue, or comment on our talk page, when you have changes you'd like merged in to the main version.

As well as the core team, and others providing assistance, ProveIt depends on the following code and resources:

• Translators
  • Olli (Finnish)
• MediaWiki, including wikibits.js.
• Wikipedia version of jQuery, which must already be loaded.
• Icons from the Silk icon set, by Mark James, used under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
• jQuery UI, loaded via Google Libraries API.
• Public domain code from QuirksMode, by Peter-Paul Koch, particularly a modified version of his findPos function.
• textSelection API from Usability Initiative's plugins.combined.js.
• Cross-browser split, by Steven Levithan, used under the MIT license.

External links

• ProveIt project website
• ProveIt on Google Code