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_.2...
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,
2014-03-17 1:52 GMT+01:00 Lane Rasberry lane@bluerasberry.com:
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.
There is only one serious problem in the Wikidata side at this point : we can't access any item datas on any page. But discussions about these problems are alrady taking place on wikiprojects like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Books_task_force and maybe the datas can already been entered or imported and be used to source wikidata statements about desease for example.
Thomas Douillard <thomas.douillard@...> writes:
2014-03-17 1:52 GMT+01:00 Lane Rasberry
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.
There is only one serious problem in the Wikidata side at this point : we
can't access any item datas on any page. But discussions about these problems are alrady taking place on wikiprojects like https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Books_task_force and maybe the datas can already been entered or imported and be used to source wikidata statements about desease for example.
And you can't put more than 400 characters in an item.
Pyb
2014-03-17 14:17 GMT+01:00 Pierre Yves Beaudouin <pierre.beaudouin@gmail.com
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And you can't put more than 400 characters in an item.
Pyb
How is that a problem ? we are supposed to put datas in statements