[Foundation-l] "stumble upon" in wikimedia? citation collection, where researchers want to be included in future?

[Charlotte Webb]

On 11/28/08, THURNER rupert <rupert.thurner at wikimedia.ch> wrote:
> some sites to cite an article about medical visualization [2]. when
> looking at it i noticed:
>  * that it is published in a cc-2.5 licensed journal
>  * that there is a possibility to enter links from facebook, stumble upon,
> ...
>  * that there is no link to do make a reference in wiki*
>
> would it make sense that a wikimedia page allows referencing such an
> article? the functions of such a page could be:
>  * enter it in a (not yet existing) references library (bibtex or whatever)
>  * add it to a portal talk page selected by the user (like medicine)
>  * add it to project selected by the user (like wpedia, wversity, ...)
>
> imo the advantages would be that on one hand quality may rise through
> better citations, on the other hand having a citation library where
> researchers in future want to be and need to be.

It would be easy use javascript to fill out a {{cite news}} template
or whatever based on the url parameters. However the intersection of
"sites we want to newcomers to easily link to" and "sites which take
us seriously enough to provide a url for doing so" might be smaller
than we'd hope.

—C.W.