"citation signals" will always work until a rock band takes that name and gets a page in Wikipedia. Try "game theory".
Making "semantic" identifiers seems to be a hard problem. If you put slashes in an identifier, you irritate the folks who want pure and simple REST URLs. If you put underscores, MediaWiki interprets them as spaces. Some other characters simply violate the rules of messages sent over HTTP just as putting apostrophes in strings gives SQL fits.
I do hope someone comes up with a nice, clean solution.
Jack
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Jodi Schneider jodi.schneider@deri.org wrote:
On 21 Jul 2010, at 21:43, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
A compromise could be that the ID is the first author's name plus an auto-incrememented ID per author. So for example, the first paper of mine the system learns is priedhorsky1, the second priedhorsky2, etc. So you get a system-generated ID for uniqueness but also something comprehensible for people.
Interesting. I'd really like ID's to be not only comprehensible but also to have a fair chance of being directly inputtable by humans.
For instance, on Wikipedia, if I know that I am looking for the article on "citation signals" I can type the URL directly, without searching.
In my ideal citation-wiki-in-the-sky, you could get to the citation directly in this way -- and sensible disambiguation pages would be automatically generated.
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