[Foundation-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: [Wiki-research-l] UPEI's proposal for a "universal citation index"

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Brian J Mingus, 19/07/2010 22:20:
> The basic idea is a centralized wiki that contains citation information that
> other MediaWikis and WMF projects can then reference using something like a
> {{cite}} template or a simple link. The community can document the citation,
> the author, the book etc.. and, in one idealization, all citations across
> all wikis would point to the same article on WikiCite. Users can use this
> wiki as their personal bibliography as well, as collections of citations can
> be exported in arbitrary citation formats.

I have already mentioned it before, but this description looks quite 
similar to http://bibdex.org/ . Maybe we should join forces (i.e., send 
your proposal also to Sunir Shah).

Nemo