[WikiEN-l] Works cited in Wikipedia

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Tue Feb 27 08:15:56 UTC 2007


Stan Shebs wrote:

>Andrew Gray wrote:
>  
>
>>...well, works cited where the citation involves an ISBN, anyway.
>>
>>http://www.librarything.com/blog/2007/02/wikipedia-citatons-with-feed.php
>>
>>Quite an interesting idea to play with, there.
>>    
>>
>What a coincidence - I was just today pondering how it was that many of 
>the books in my librarything collection seem not to be referenced by WP 
>articles, even some of those to which I personally added the reference. 
>Not necessarily vandalism though, one thing we learn quickly from 
>librarything is just how many dozens of ISBNs can be associated with a 
>particular work...
>
>An interesting future possibility is to provide a route for article 
>checkers to get in touch with people who actually own the book being 
>referenced.
>
I added a couple of books to this site in December 2005 just to get the 
hang of it, but never got back to it.  With others now interested I can 
now take a second look  

Ec




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