On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
Brian,
The meta process for new project proposals is still the cleanest one for suggesting a specific Project and presenting it alongside similar projects.
It would be helpful if you could update a related project proposal on meta -- say, [[m:WikiBibliography]], if that seems relevant. (I just cleaned that page up and merged in an older proposal that had been obfuscated.)
Thanks for your work on this - definitely in the right direction! I will consider whether I feel it's the right way for me to get started. One point is that I am pointing more in the direction of a long-form proposal, and I have more experience writing white-paper proposals for academia. I certainly want it to end up on wiki, but when TPTB finally read the proposal perhaps they will find it more persuasive if it is a professional looking document that lands in their inbox.
Or you can create a new project proposal... WikiCite as a name can be confusing, since it has been used to refer to this bibliographic idea, but also to refer to the idea of citations for every statement or fact
- something closer to a blame or trust solution that includes
citations in its transactions.
Another name that I have come up with is OpenScholar. I still rather like it, but suspect it has too much of a scientific ring to it? Names are certainly very important so we should do more work on this avenue. Including a list of names in the proposal would be a good idea, and perhaps the final name will be a combination of existing name proposals.
We should figure out how this project would work with acawiki, and possibly bibdex. Bibdex doesn't aim to And it would be helpful to have a publicly-viewable demo to play with -- could you clone your current wiki and populate the result with dummy data?
The problem with WikiPapers is that it has too many features! A feature-thin version would be ideal for the proposal though, so I will plan to have some kind of a demo site available.
I love the idea of having a global place to discuss citations -- ALL citations -- something that OpenLibrary, the arXiv, and anyone else hosting cited documents could point to for every one of its works.
Exactly :)
Brian
Sam.
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
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
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