NATAJUTEMPE
One piece of school lessons that I still remember fondly is the “NATAJUTEMPE” mnemonic from the Bahasa Indonesia course, repeatedly taught from junior high school to senior high school.
“Natajutempe” means: “nama, tahun, judul, tempat penerbitan, penerbit.” It states the order in which we have to write things down when we want to reference sources: name, year of publication, title, place of publication, and publisher.
I still use it regularly even now. From college assignments to random blog posts to Wikipedia articles, I stick to this mnemonic.
But somehow, a certain fellow Wikipedia user thinks that it is illegal to use such a format on Wikipedia, and they decided to replace all the references I made in natajutempe format.
They prefer to use the cite template format, which, at least to me personally, is harder to craft manually than the good old natajutempe format.
Take a look here.
Natajutempe format :
<ref>Dahlan Iskan (28 Maret 2026) “[https://disway.id/catatan-harian-dahlan/937713/amang-amat Amang Amat]” Harian Disway (Diakses 30 Maret 2026)</ref>
Cite web format:
<ref>{{Cite web|first=Dahlan|last=Iskan|title=Amang Amat|url=https://disway.id/catatan-harian-dahlan/937713/amang-amat|website=disway.id|language=id|access-date=30 Maret 2026|date=28 Maret 2026}}</ref>
There is a significant “overhead” in the cite web format. I have to manually type all those placeholder elements like “cite web,” “first,” “last,” “title,” and so on. It is quite tiring.
Not to mention the computational overhead of using a wiki Lua template. In the natajutempe format, it goes straight to rendered HTML, with no Lua processing needed in between.
However, I am tired of conflict. I do not want to make a scene by trying to convince them that the natajutempe format is superior to the cite Lua template, so I gave in.
Instead, I made a small web app to convert the natajutempe format into the Lua template format. This way, I can still write my references manually in natajutempe format, then use the app to convert them into the “proper” cite Lua template format, ready to publish on Wikipedia.
