Why Anthony On 26 January 2016 at 20:46, Anthony Cole ahcoleecu@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, Aubrey. It would be way too onerous to expect us to make each citation a Wikidata item.
If you use the currently available templates to format your citation then its possible to extract this information with a bot, the next step is how to use that to create a wikidata item... nothing onerous in using citation templates on WP.
as for book older books dont have ISBNs, and some books are individually notable yet assuming they have an ISBN they share that with the 1,000's of of identical books that arent notable.
So many of my concerns and issues over WikiData were cleared up by Andy Mabbett when he toured Australia last month, maybe WikiData/WMF could get Andy on the road and talking to more communities it'd resolved many of the underlying issues that are clogging up the system through misunderstanding or false expectations
On 26 January 2016 at 20:46, Anthony Cole ahcoleecu@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, Aubrey. It would be way too onerous to expect us to make each citation a Wikidata item.
On Tuesday, 26 January 2016, Andrea Zanni zanni.andrea84@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu@gmail.com javascript:;> wrote:
Most editions of most books published in the last 40 years (certainly
books
from reliable publishers) have an ISBN that identifies one edition.
Most
reliable journal articles these days have a doi. For simple citing of
web
pages, you could automatically convert bare urls to archived versions
of
the cited web page.
I do agree with you. But the problem emerges if you want to cite the reference (the book, the article) as an item. There you have to take into account a "book model" in Wikidata, and it's easier said than done. (scientific articles are a bit easier, and Magnus
is
working on them). https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_MetaData
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