Thanks for those links, John.
I agree that a separate project is needed to have a central source
that all language versions of all projects can reference. The
citations version of Commons.
I like the French model of using "Article name (Authors)" as a key.
Perhaps with "Article name (Authors, Year)" if needed to disambiguate.
This shares a design principle with the move away from CamelCase to
freeform article titles: one should be able to insert an article name
into a natural sentence, and link the appropriate section of the
sentence, and have it take you to the appropriate article.
To DGG's question: in the long run, the scope of "all cited works" can
be captured in such a project, at least for the works cited on a wiki
Project -- anyone making a new citation would either find it already
in the project or would add it. Whether this covers all works cited
by active academics of scholars depends on how effectively we draw
them into our community and help them see where an extra minute of
work on their part will help thousands of their readers, reviewers,
and reusers.
SJ.
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:13 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Finn Aarup Nielsen
<fn(a)imm.dtu.dk> wrote:
..
Do anyone knows anything about the French discussions on the introduction of
the 'Reference' namespace? Should we just implement the French system on the
English Wikipedia and we are there?
This was discussed on en.wp in late 2007...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29/Archive…
The proposal on fr.wp in early 2006:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Prise_de_d%C3%A9cision/Espace_r…
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