Hello Lane, yes, I am interested in joining a discussion about citation structure and use of it in wikidata, but I am not the right person who can say something about the future of citations and Wikidata (except my wishes on this topic).
This weekend I tried to make a citation/source for the point in time of blindness of Johann Sebastian Bach on Wikidata. The point in time can be seen then on the Reasonator (http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q1339), the source is not displayed there but can be found in https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1339 (statement - medical condition – blindness – 1750 – source – stated in The Eyes of Johann Sebastian Bach https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15947415). The author has to be an own wikidata item: Richard H.C. Zegers (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15948328).
The citation I made in Wikidata does exist also in the German Wikipedia about „Starstich“ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starstich. So the next logical step would be, that this citation could be used in the German Wikipedia with linking it to Wikidata (and in every other wikipedia, etc. of course).
If this is already possible, and how – I don´t know, but I am interested in it and I would like to join the discussion.
Sincerely yours, Edgar
Lane Rasberry schrieb:
Hello.
Is there anyone here who would like to join a discussion on English Wikipedia about citation structure? Some of us at WikiProject Medicine would like to meet anyone in the Wikidata community who could say something about the future of citations and Wikidata.
At WikiProject Medicine we coordinate translation and reuse a lot of citations, and also do more review of sources than most other Wikimedia
communities. Because of this, we are talking about deprecating template:cite PMID, template cite doi, and by extension Citation bot. While the problems people are experiencing are serious, I had the idea that Wikidata would eventually address a lot of citation problems but I do not know when that would be. If no one has plans then we at WikiProject Medicine will work for a quick solution now, but if there are plans, we
would like to hear thoughts from anyone thinking about this.
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Thanks to anyone who can comment, even if just to say that you know nothing about this and know no one working on Wikidata citations. We just wanted to seek feedback before we made great changes.
yours,
-- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 lane@bluerasberry.com