[Wikipedia-l] Re: A Solution to Larry Sanger's Criticisms - Project Has Been Around For A While

[Josh Gerdes]

Shaun McPherson wrote:
>  --- Stirling Newberry
> <stirling.newberry at xigenics.net> wrote: 
> 
>>References and a reference engine would be a
>>tremendous help, both for 
>>readability, and for writing. I would like to
>>suggest a project: 
>>wikicite which would list all available books and
>>create a simple tag 
>>mechanism for citing them.
>>
>>Thus something like {{wikicite:Wealth of Nations}}
>>would expand out to 
>>a canonical Smith, Adam etc.
> 
> 
> Wikicite is a very good idea.  Especially so since I
> believe the time will come when people will disagree
> what constitutes a good reference, people disagreeing
> on the reference formatting, trouuble in keeping track
> of the different editions and page numbers for a
> quotation, or different printing runs for books.
> 
> As well, if we are citing a public domain work there
> is no reason why the cite cannot bring us to the
> actual document and quotation on wikisource or
> wikicommons.
>  
> 
>>Getting journal articles would be next, and harder,
>>but could be worked 
>>out over time. This would make entering sources and
>>bibliography easy, 
>>standardised, and current. It would also keep the
>>burden of generating 
>>citation lists down, and would be a generally useful
>>resource 
>>everywhere.
> 
> 
> Wikicite might be able to keep track of all things
> published.  It would also be useful to keep track of
> books and their printing date to know when things
> enter the public domain to know when to put them on
> Wikisource/Wikicommons.
> 
> I don't mean to steal your idea, I just agree with it
> a lot and added some suggestions :).  If you are
> around you can mention Wikicite at
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Fact_and_Reference_Check)
> the talk page here, I think many people would be
> interested.
> 
> Bye,
> 
> ShaunMacPherson
> 
> 
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I completely agree. Wikicite is an excellent idea.
--
Josh Gerdes
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