[WikiEN-l] References bookmarklet?

[Brian J Mingus]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:44 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5 January 2011 22:40, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Basically no
> > If you look at even [[Template:Cite web]] it requires stuff that you
> > have to go hunting for (author).
> > You could construct something for popular websites (BBC say) which
> > have a standard format.
>
>
> Sounds like something we could add really quite a lot of special cases
> to. I wonder how many we would need to have decent coverage in
> practice. Has anyone done a survey of what sources we actually use in
> references? The long tail will be *huge*, but does the en:wp community
> have any favourites?
>
>
> - d.


I have created a tool called WikiPapers that my lab has used for several
years that does something similar to this. It is designed around scientific
papers. It allows you to highlight the title of an article on any web page
and then click it a bookmarklet and it will use various APIs on the web to
get the associated metadata and add it to your wiki. It can optionally pass
the URL to one of many URL scrapers such as Connotea and CiteULike. I am
currently refactoring the code for use in a new project called WikiScholar.
The old code supports PubMed, Google Scholar, Connotea and CiteULike,
whereas the new code only supports PubMed right now. The new code, however,
makes it much simpler to add new importers with its class-based
infrastructure.

If anyone is interested in this project and can code in Python or PHP please
let me know. I am actively developing it now. I'm interested in folks who
would like to dedicate some time to writing importers for specific APIs.

Cheers,
Brian