Many reference sites have been happy to do this, and personally I don't see any problem doing it piecemeal, one language at a time, unless and until there is a more efficient solution available.
I think at this point it's clear enough to a reference site why it is in their interest to do so, and they are often happy to pay for solid advice on implementation. So there isn't really any need for a formal, WMF endorsed approach.
Pete [[User:peteforsyth]] On Aug 3, 2014 12:44 PM, "Luis Villa" lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 3 August 2014 19:01, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
I suspect that Google would be reluctant to add a Wikimedia citation format
Trove, the Australian National Library's newspaper archive, are happy to do so.
Presumably those materials are all in English, unlike Scholar (and Wikipedia!)
because there is no one Wikimedia citation format. (Happy to be corrected on that if I'm wrong, though.)
There isn't, hence I suggested the most suitable for scholarly citations in English.
Both Google and Wikimedia claim to be global, multi-lingual solutions. So both we and Google should be aiming higher.
But of course take my perspective with a grain of salt - I've always found it crazy that there is not a standardized citation format across the projects, so I may be putting words in Google's mouth.
Luis
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