Hi,

I am trying to enhance the wikimedia syntax to include a simple easy to use citation format. This will include an automatically generated reference page

Amruta,

There seem to be a couple proposed projects already addressing this issue, the most prominent being Wikicite:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite

There is also a proposal for storing relational data entered through a wiki called Wikidata:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata

I think it would be best to try and use these projects as foundations for any further work with regard to references/citations. Thanks.

Message: 5 Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 09:54:38 -0400 From: Amruta Lonkar gtg808u@mail.gatech.edu Subject: [Wikitech-l] treating references as first class objects in wiki To: wikitech-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 1125669278.4318599ecab56@webmail.mail.gatech.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Hi,

I am trying to enhance the wikimedia syntax to include a simple easy to use citation format. This will include an automatically generated reference page in addition to the existing talk,, discussion and history pages. In addition each reference on the reference page will have its own page and willl funciton same as an article in a wiki with its own talk page. Thus the wiki might be effectivelu used by students in writing papers.

I have just started going through the mediawiki code and i wanted to know what would be a good starting point to work on this kind of a project. I am getting very confused with the actual flow of the code. I will be creating a separate database for the references so i need to unerstand the flow.

-- Thanks, Amruta

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