--- Stirling Newberry
<stirling.newberry(a)xigenics.net> wrote:
References and a reference engine would be a
tremendous help, both for
readability, and for writing. I would like to
suggest a project:
wikicite which would list all available books and
create a simple tag
mechanism for citing them.
Thus something like {{wikicite:Wealth of Nations}}
would expand out to
a canonical Smith, Adam etc.
Wikicite is a very good idea. Especially so since I
believe the time will come when people will disagree
what constitutes a good reference, people disagreeing
on the reference formatting, trouuble in keeping track
of the different editions and page numbers for a
quotation, or different printing runs for books.
As well, if we are citing a public domain work there
is no reason why the cite cannot bring us to the
actual document and quotation on wikisource or
wikicommons.
Getting journal articles would be next, and harder,
but could be worked
out over time. This would make entering sources and
bibliography easy,
standardised, and current. It would also keep the
burden of generating
citation lists down, and would be a generally useful
resource
everywhere.
Wikicite might be able to keep track of all things
published. It would also be useful to keep track of
books and their printing date to know when things
enter the public domain to know when to put them on
Wikisource/Wikicommons.
I don't mean to steal your idea, I just agree with it
a lot and added some suggestions :). If you are
around you can mention Wikicite at
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_…)
the talk page here, I think many people would be
interested.
Bye,
ShaunMacPherson
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