If an easy-to-use Citation Reference Toolbar form emerges as you'd like in a Wikipedia infobox proposal, Erika (and Wikidatans), I wonder, and am asking how, in general, it could code for all 358 languages in Wikipedia/Wikidata with translation (and anticipate all 8k languages with unicode eventually)? Also how could folks write apps on this to create referencing programs for a academic papers (e.g. in the Chicago Manual of Style style, or the American Chemical Engineering citation style - or in similar styles in Japanese or Swedish? - there are possibly 10s of thousands of these citation styles in many languages in many academic disciplines).

Dario shared this 2 days ago - http://allourideas.org/wikidata/results - and it's good to see that a "Wizard-style dialog for entering references" in 9 out of 10 on a list of "What's the one thing you wish Wikidata had or would do but doesn't yet?"

... all in a little info box bridge between wiki and wikidata ... 'tis a lot to ask of a little info box :)

Thanks, 
Scott


On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Brill Lyle <wp.brilllyle@gmail.com> wrote:
Because this proposal involves depreciating the infobox to Wikipedia -- my biggest concern -- I changed my endorsement to Weak Support but under no circumstances implement on English Wikipedia. I think it would be a very bad approach.

The Danish examples seemed more ideal, which was why I changed to Support.

I also really don't like this sequential list of elements. The faceted element=value relationship is gone, and adding Wikidata numbers to Wikipedia is very backwards.

Again, I would like this proposal to involve creating a form (in Wiki Markup) that is filled in like with the Cite RefToolbar -- see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RefToolbar-URL-autofill.png -- minus the lookups....

I am not seeing a value add to this proposal's implementation. The barriers to entry for editors is very high.

- Erika



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