[Wikipedia-l] Wikicite project pages (english versions only so far)

[Sj]

I was wary of this idea at first, but after talking to Stirling about
it last week, I am very enthusiastic.  Two librarians I have talked to
in Boston seem to think it's a good idea, also.  In addition to
helping us reference our existing articles, this would be a fine way
to provide a universal, POV-free service (with potentially POV
commentary built on top of it).

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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:07:43 -0500, Stirling Newberry
<stirling.newberry at xigenics.net> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikicite
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite
> 
> A fact is only as reliable as the ability to source that fact, and the
> ability to weigh carefully that source. Wikipedia's community, in an
> effort to expand its useful sphere of users, increase its reliability,
> usability and credibility has held several related discussions on
> improving the scholarly apparatus of wikipedia. The need to cite
> sources is now in the community standard's list, the desire to upgrade
> the citation of articles is the subject of the Fact and Reference
> Project, and the Encyclopediac Standards project has discussed
> automatic, or at least software assisted citations. There has also been
> a coding effort to support footnoting.
> [edit]
> 
> Need for Live Data
> 
> These projects, need, not only to be joined together, but to be joined
> together in a live manner, which allows for the creation of
> bibliographic apparatus. The Library of Congress is working on such a
> project for its purposes, it is the purpose of this project to create
> an open wiki system which will allow:
> 
> 1.  Software assisted citation. To make it easier for editors to cite,
> and to make citations comprehensive to include a link to an author
> article, the book's card and the date as a wikilink.
> 
> 2.  Card catalogs which will allow users to annotate the work, and to
> link to other works, which could include later editions, bibliography
> and textual apparatus. To make the card catalog live data, rather than
> dead data.
> 
> 3.  Support a footnote system in wikimedia. To improve the ability to
> assess credibility and standards compliance of articles and their
> information.
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