That makes sense, but WikiCite, while having the right idea, seems rather overcomplicated. I really doubt Wikipedia needs such a flexible and powerful citation checking system right now, we should really wait for stable versioning.
On 9/3/06, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
Lovely. I hope this can someday contribute to a cross-project wikicite initiative as well; added linkns to [[m:Wikicite]] to the page.
SJ
On 9/2/06, Akash Mehta draicone@gmail.com wrote:
The draft is coming along; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Draicone/WikiProject_Reference_Help for current progress and feel free to edit.
On 9/3/06, Akash Mehta draicone@gmail.com wrote:
That sounds like a really good idea, and we could use a formal wikiproject to encourage people to help establish these citation collections. I'm starting a draft at [[User:Draicone/WikiProject Reference Help]] if anyone wants to help. If we get a decent plan we can move it to the WP space.
On 9/3/06, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Matt Brown wrote:
I've learned, personally, {{cite web}} and {{cite book}}'s fundamentals, and look stuff up from time to time. I've also created subst:able templates for reference works I cite a lot, so I don't have to do the thinking.
Way back when I was doing a bunch of work citing various articles about Stargate subjects and I kept using the same episode citations over and over. I considered creating a group of templates specifically for those cites, for example
<ref>{{cite stargate sg-1/broca's gap}}</ref>
So I wouldn't have to keep looking up airdates and other details to fill in, and if the citation format changed or more information became available they could all be updated with a single edit. Perhaps some sort of formalized system along these lines might be useful for common references? <ref>{{cite collection/Oxford dictionary 2006}}, p. 1245</ref> for example. These big bibliographic lists would then become collections of templates like this and they'd make better project pages.
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