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