On 27/02/07, Stan Shebs stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
Andrew Gray wrote:
...well, works cited where the citation involves an ISBN, anyway.
http://www.librarything.com/blog/2007/02/wikipedia-citatons-with-feed.php
Quite an interesting idea to play with, there.
What a coincidence - I was just today pondering how it was that many of the books in my librarything collection seem not to be referenced by WP articles, even some of those to which I personally added the reference. Not necessarily vandalism though, one thing we learn quickly from librarything is just how many dozens of ISBNs can be associated with a particular work...
An interesting future possibility is to provide a route for article checkers to get in touch with people who actually own the book being referenced.
An excellent idea! Which reminds me... there's a "union catalogue" group for the German wikipedia with much the same goals. I've set one up for enwp; where would be best to spread the word? A sizable number of users could produce an interesting reference resource...
http://www.librarything.com/groups/englishwikipedia