[WikiEN-l] References bookmarklet?

[Brian J Mingus]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:44 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 5 January 2011 22:40, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Basically no
>> > If you look at even [[Template:Cite web]] it requires stuff that you
>> > have to go hunting for (author).
>> > You could construct something for popular websites (BBC say) which
>> > have a standard format.
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>> Sounds like something we could add really quite a lot of special cases
>> to. I wonder how many we would need to have decent coverage in
>> practice. Has anyone done a survey of what sources we actually use in
>> references? The long tail will be *huge*, but does the en:wp community
>> have any favourites?
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>> - d.
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> I have created a tool called WikiPapers that my lab has used for several
> years that does something similar to this. It is designed around scientific
> papers. It allows you to highlight the title of an article on any web page
> and then click it a bookmarklet and it will use various APIs on the web to
> get the associated metadata and add it to your wiki. It can optionally pass
> the URL to one of many URL scrapers such as Connotea and CiteULike. I am
> currently refactoring the code for use in a new project called WikiScholar.
> The old code supports PubMed, Google Scholar, Connotea and CiteULike,
> whereas the new code only supports PubMed right now. The new code, however,
> makes it much simpler to add new importers with its class-based
> infrastructure.
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> If anyone is interested in this project and can code in Python or PHP
> please let me know. I am actively developing it now. I'm interested in folks
> who would like to dedicate some time to writing importers for specific APIs.
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> Cheers,
> Brian
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PS: The Google Code url is: http://code.google.com/p/wikipapers/