New subject: [Wikidata-l] discussion on English Wikipedia about getting rid of citation templates...

17 Mar 2014

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.

 <
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#
 Replace_.22cite_pmid.22_with_.22cite_journal.22

 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(a)bluerasberry.com 

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