# QWiki-Cite

> Instantly generate a Wikipedia citation template for the current website.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/qwiki-cite](https://chrome-stats.com/d/qwiki-cite)

## Overview

- **ID:** `qwiki-cite`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** David Palmer
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 7
- **Version:** 2.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-07-09
- **First published:** 2023-12-28
- **Size:** 1.60 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/qwiki-cite/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/cloventt/qwiki-cite](https://github.com/cloventt/qwiki-cite)

## Description

This browser button helps you quickly generate a detailed {{cite web}} citation template to use on Wikipedia.
<ul><li>grabs metadata from the current browser page including title, author, site name, published date, etc</li><li>instantly generates a formatted {{cite web}} template to use on Wikipedia</li><li>quick button click to grab a minified and escaped version of the template to paste into Wikipedia</li><li>you can manually make adjustments to the template</li><li>checks the Wayback Machine for the most-recent archive to populate the archive-url and archive-date fields</li></ul>
Please submit bugs or feature requests on Github.

## Rankings

- #39,491 — Overall
- #98 — templates
- #140 — template
- #188 — wikipedia
- #194 — wiki

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `activeTab`
- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `https://archive.org/`
- `https://web.archive.org/`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`
- `cloventt.net`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/qwiki-cite)