I think a very important issue here is whether to add cites to articles that we don't know what sources were used.
If I wrote the entire text of [[Japanese language]] (which I didn't, this is just an example), without a cite, it would be a very horrible thing in my mind if somebody added a cite for a book I'd never even heard of. It's simply not accurate, and in some cases the book may not even be a good resource.
Whenever somebody adds a random cite to an article written mostly or entirely by me, I remove it unless I actually DID use that source. It's very irritating to have people doing that, almost like bees, who while they make honey also tend to annoy people.
Mark
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:15:16 -0500, Stirling Newberry stirling.newberry@xigenics.net wrote:
On Feb 9, 2005, at 2:59 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Sj wrote (about Wikicite):
I was wary of this idea at first, but after talking to Stirling about it last week, I am very enthusiastic. Two librarians I have talked to in Boston seem to think it's a good idea, also.
As in "if you cook, we will eat", or the other way around?
Stirling Newbury wrote:
together in a live manner, which allows for the creation of bibliographic apparatus. The Library of Congress is working on such a project for its purposes, it is the purpose of this project to create an open wiki system which will allow:
Who are these people at LoC? Does their project have a name?
Bibliographic enhancement, there is a link on the page.
I think the best way is to digitize every book and give each page a URL, like this, http://runeberg.org/pictswed/0219.html
Where the material is in Wikisource this is great, but you still need the card for context and references.
We already know how to handle URLs, and it's only a matter of time until we have scanned every book and newspaper there is. I would guess the task will be completed within the next 50 years. Most of us will be around to see it.
So, I have a proposed solution and a time table. What's your time table?
Links to sources don't create citation indexes, they don't make citing easier and they don't allow us to annotate sources - it also assumes that a great deal of material will be released into the public domain that is not currently. I feel that we can have a first pass wikicite ready to be used in wikipedia and wikitionary articles within a year based on ISBN numbers for books and ISSN numbers for journals.
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