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

[Neil Harris]

On 22/07/10 12:04, Neil Harris wrote:
> On 21/07/10 22:38, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
>    
>> Дана Monday 19 July 2010 22:20:15 Brian J Mingus написа:
>>
>>      
>>> Feel free to provide your feedback on this idea, in addition to your own
>>> ideas, in this thread, or to me personally. I am especially interested in
>>> the potential benefits to the WMF projects that you see, and to hear your
>>> thoughts on the potential of this project on its own, as that will feature
>>> prominently in the proposal. Additionally, what do you think WikiCite would
>>> eventually be like, once it is fully matured?
>>>
>>>        
>> I was thinking about this too. Main advantages that I see are that citations
>> will become easier to use for editors while more informative for readers. Too
>> often I just link to something instead of properly filling a cite template
>> because it's just too bothersome. For example, instead of this crud:
>>
>> {{cite book|author=Š. Kulišić |coauthors=P. Ž. Petrović, N. Pantelić |
>> title=Српски митолошки речник |origyear=1970 |publisher=[[Nolit]] |
>> location=Belgrade |language=Serbian |pages=161 |chapter=Јерисавља}}
>>
>> we would have just:
>>
>> {{cite|work=Српски митолошки речник |pages=161 |chapter=Јерисавља}}
>>
>>      
> Since there might be more than one edition of the same book, you'd still
> have to do a unique identifier, and expanding the cite into the text of
> the article is still a good idea. I would suggest making the system work
> like the current {{cite pmid}}, {{cite isbn}} and {{cite medline}}
> templates, where you'd add (say)
>
> {{cite citeid|345343095}}
>
> to the article, and a bot would come round to the article and replace
> this with:
>
> {{cite book|author=Š. Kulišić |coauthors=P. Ž. Petrović, N. Pantelić |
> title=Српски митолошки речник |origyear=1970 |publisher=[[Nolit]] |
> location=Belgrade |language=Serbian |pages=161 |chapter=Јерисавља|citeid=345343095}}
>    

That should have read:

{{cite citeid|345343095|pages=161|chapter=Јерисавља}}

Apologies,

-- Neil