Lodewijk: Yes indeed. The citation/footnote coding format for different language editions of Wikipedia is not the same, not to mention the other Wikimedia projects. I wonder if this is something that Wikidata could (eventually) handle? I have been hoping that one day all books (at least those with ISBNs) could have a Wikidata entry. This would mean that all of the bibliographic metadata published as CC0 by a variety of national libraries could be imported and we would have a tremendously useful catalogue of published works. Presubamly then, each Wikipedia could rely on this database for footnotes to specific books (each with its own presentation format if it wants) - rather than having to manually enter each book's bibliographic information every time you want to cite it on a new Wikipedia article... This would be similar to the way Commons is a central repository for Media files, Wikidata could be a central repository of footnote information. Does this make (logical and technological) sense? Is this feasible, or completely out of scope for Wikidata?
Andy: Thanks for pointing out the way "Trove" provides a citation tool for easy use on (English) Wikipedia articles. For those who've not seen it, here's a random example - http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/1038049 click the "cite" link near the top-left corner. I asked them to incorporate this into the Trove system in 2009 in association with the GLAM-WIKI conference in Canberra. Over the years this has proved to be hugely beneficial to Trove (a service of the National Library of Australia), and has generated thousands of deep-links to their catalogue http://linkypedia.inkdroid.org/websites/16/ These links made Wikipedia their number one non-search-engine provider of inbound traffic [I was employed at the NLA until recently].
-Liam / Wittylama
On 4 August 2014 09:18, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
the problem is all projects use a different format :)
Maybe it is worth the effort to investigate if we can come to a single format... at least on the input side.
Lodewijk
2014-08-04 3:43 GMT+02:00 Gryllida gryllida@fastmail.fm:
Does the same apply to other sister projects? It could make sense to make such request for all...
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, at 03:14, Andy Mabbett wrote:
Google Scholar search results each have a "cite" link, which generates citation text to copy-and-paste in three formats (MLA, APA, Chicago).
Is there someone at Google we can talk to, to get Wikipedia's citation format included?
For English-language users (or results), the {{Cite journal}} template is probably most appropriate.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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