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-About:
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+About
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 Wikipedia Cite-o-Meter is a tool designed to generate statistics of citations of scholarly works in Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
 Citation data is aggregated by DOI registrars, which are identified by DOI prefixes, as provided by CrossRef at: http://www.crossref.org/06members/50go-live.html
 
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 A live version of the tool is available at: http://tools.wmflabs.org/cite-o-meter/
 
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-Dario Taraborelli, code
-Daniel Mietchen, concept and early data
 
-License:
+* [Dario Taraborelli](https://twitter.com/readermeter), code
+* [Daniel Mietchen](https://twitter.com/EvoMRI), concept and early data
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+License
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-Cite-o-Meter data is released under CC0
-http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
 
-Cite-o-Meter code is released under GPL v2
-http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
+* Cite-o-Meter data is released under [CC0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
+* Cite-o-Meter code is released under [GPL v2](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html)