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

[James R. Johnson]

If this project goes through, I'd also suggest original language of
publication, place of publication (perhaps a part of the publisher field),
and any further language editions of the work, as well as any further
revisions of the work (e.g. an encyclopedia, almanac, Guiness Book, etc.).
Just some thoughts.

James

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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).

+sj+

 
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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